is deadline designed to operate in such a configuration? windows machines running on a deadline farm with submissions coming from both windows and linux boxes. also, can deadline run on a mixed farm (some windows, some linux)?
Hello,
We are absolutely able to support cross platform farms, and we have some pretty good documentation on it at thinkboxsoftware.com/deadline-6-plugins/ and then on the left side hit up the plugin guide for each of the apps you want to use, and make sure you have a good grasp of the recommendations.
great, thanks! just curious, tho, how do the environment variables translate over? do linux env vars get populated into windows env vars? i’m a little vague as to whether windows handles env vars in the same way as linux.
Hello,
The great thing about environment variables is that they work the same across all OSes.
Just a note, some applications use different environment variables for different OSs. cough Chaos Group cough. So you’ll need to either check the environment in your code or else just dump all of the different OS’ env vars for things like the vray license sever path.