Windows vs linux

[Michael O Holstein]

"better" is debatable .. it's a java webapp .. configuring and maintaining it on windows isn't any easier/harder than doing so on linux, and assuming you're using something that has a modern package manager, neither one is particularly difficult to maintain.

Off the top of my head the only thing that'd be slightly easier in windows would be setting up kerberos assuming the webserver is on the domain.

As for physical vs virtual the decision to use VMs has more to do with the flexibility (snapshots, vMotion, DR, etc.) than performance, although it's far easier to add CPUs to a VM than it is to a physical. It's also vastly easier to just have a "spare" copy of the VM to swap in for failures than it is to configure all the clustering, stickiness, and other crap you have to do when you do more than one instance .. you can use the hypervisor feature to handle failures.

Unless you are doing an insane amount of auth requests (because DH setup is mathematically expensive) .. as in hundreds per second .. there's nothing particularly demanding about running the idp.

tl;dr .. if the boss wants it on windows, run it on windows .. you probably won't notice the difference.

My 0.02 from experience anyway ...

Regards,

Michael Holstein
Cleveland State University
________________________________________
From: users <users-bounces at shibboleth.net> on behalf of owerall at yahoo.com <owerall at yahoo.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2015 2:38 PM
To: users at shibboleth.net
Subject: Windows vs linux

> Hello. We currently have shibboleth installed on unix. I have been tasked to see if it's better to have shibboleth on windows (new windows manager). I don't see any information out there about it so this is why I am emailing you. Do you have any information on have many Linux users you have vs windows? Is there any performance differences? Is there a preference of having it on a virtual machine vs physical? Thank you
--
To unsubscribe from this list send an email to users-unsubscribe at shibboleth.net