Administrator's Guide: How to create a Virtual Organization

Section contents

1 Installing the Virtual Organization enabling services

2 Configuring the Virtual Organization

3 Verifying the Virtual Organization correctness

4 VO Resources

5 VO Services Deployment and Configuration

6 Monitoring the Virtual Organization

7 Managing the Virtual Organization

This section describes a step-by-step process for creating a new Virtual Organization (VO) within an existing gCube infrastructure.

The creation of a VO requires to:

• identify at least 8 machines to turn as gHNs (more machines could be needed, depending on the VO needs);
• deploy and configure the VO enabling services on 3 gHNs. These are the mandatory services needed to glue together the VO nodes;
• configure the VO;
• verify the VO correctness;
• create and register the VO Resources;
• deploy and configure the VO-level services on 5 gHNs (eventually, other VO specific services). These services are deployed at VO level to support a specific deployment scenario;

These steps assume that a Portal has been already installed, it is running at infrastructure level and can be configured to join the new VO.