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Creating and Working with Grids › Creating a Grid

Creating a Grid

The BFC provides a New Grid Wizard that assists you in easily creating a new grid. The following is a description of the five steps (pages) of the wizard:

  1. General: Specify the grid name and license information.
  2. Version: Specify the CA 3Tera AppLogic software version with hotfixes (if any) to install on the grid.
  3. SLA: Specify the minimum, target, and maximum number of servers for the grid to use.
  4. IP Ranges: Specify the IP ranges to allocate for the grid for use by applications.
  5. Controller: Specify the grid controller information (such as, grid ID, grid controller userID and password, desired OEM kit to use, and so on).
  6. Authentication: Specify the default authentication CA 3Tera AppLogic uses to authenticate users for Role Based Access Control (RBAC). For more information about using RBAC, see Using Role Based Access Control in the Command Line Shell Reference Guide.
  7. VLANs: If you are using VLAN tagging, the VLANs tab enables you to provide the configuration and VLAN ranges for use by your applications in the grid.

To create a grid

  1. Select Grids from the left Menu.

    The Grids page appears.

  2. Click the Add Grid button.

    The New Grid Wizard General page appears.

  3. Complete the following fields.
    Name

    Name of the grid. Must be alphanumeric and cannot contain spaces.

    Description

    Optional description text for the grid.

    Account Name

    Account name provided with the CA 3Tera AppLogic license key.

    CA 3Tera AppLogic License Key

    License key for CA 3Tera AppLogic.

    VMware License Key

    Only required for grids which will have ESX based AppNodes. If required, use the VMware License key provided by VMware.

  4. Click the Next button.

    The New Grid Wizard Version page appears.

  5. Select the software version from the Version drop-down list. If a hotfix exists for the version you selected, the name of the hotfix will appear in the Hotfixes list.
  6. To install the hotfix, select the checkbox next to the hotfix.
  7. Click the Next button.

    The New Grid Wizard SLA page appears.

  8. Specify the following server values to use for the grid:

    If this grid uses VMware servers, specify the Minimum, Target, and Maximum values for VMware too.

    Note: You can have both XEN and VMware in the same grid.

  9. If your servers will have VMware installed, select the VMware Support checkbox.
  10. Click the Next button.
  11. The New Grid Wizard IP Ranges page appears.
  12. Click the Add button.

    The Add/Edit IP Range dialog appears.

  13. Complete the following fields on the Add/Edit IP Range dialog:
    Network

    Network for the grid.

    IP Range

    IP range for the grid.

    The Start, Stop, and Scope fields auto-populate based on the network you select. You can change these fields as needed.

    Start

    First IP in the IP range for the grid.

    End

    Last IP in the IP range for the grid.

    Scope

    Visibility of the IPs.

    Public: Routable IPs that are visible outside the grid.

    Private: Non-routable IPs that are not accessible outside the grid.

  14. Click the Save button on the Add/Edit IP Range dialog.
  15. Complete the following on the IP Ranges page:
    Controller IP

    IP address for the grid controller. The Controller IP must be an IP that is in one of the external networks defined on the networks page, but cannot be in the range of application IPs defined for the grid. For example, the grid can have application IPs of 111.222.111.10 - 20, and a grid controller IP 111.222.111.9, but not a grid controller IP of 111.222.111.10

  16. Click the Next button.

    The New Grid Wizard Controller page appears.

  17. Complete the following fields.
    Grid ID

    Unique identification number that identifies the grid on the network.

    Grid Controller Domain

    Domain of the grid controller.

    Grid Controller UserID

    BFC administrator User ID.

    Grid Controller Password

    BFC administrator Password.

    Recovery Controller Password

    Password for the controller that runs when the grid controller is not accessible.

    OEM Kit

    Name of the OEM kit to use when creating grids. The OEM kit provides the ability to customize the appearance and selected elements of the CA 3Tera AppLogic GUI. For more information, see Configuring OEM Settings.

    Additional Grid Parameters

    See Specifying Miscellaneous Grid Parameters for more information.

  18. Click the Next button.

    The New Grid Wizard Authentication page appears.

    See Configuring Authentication for more information.

  19. Click the Next button.

    The New Grid Wizard VLANs page appears. See Configuring VLANs for more information.

  20. Click the Finish button.

    The grid appears in the grid list immediately, but the grid creation process may take 1-2 hours to complete.

  21. After the grid creation process completes, perform the following steps to create a user with administrative privileges for the desired grid.
    1. Use the "user create" command in the Command Line Shell to create the user (for example, user create user1@domain.com pwd=-). For more information, see create (User Management)--Add a New User in the Command Line Shell Reference Guide.
    2. Use the "grid modify_acl" command in the Command Line Shell to add the grid user to the grid_administrator group (for example, grid modify_acl local:user:user1=grid_administrator). For more information, see modify_acl (Grid Control)--Replace Portion Grid ACL in the Command Line Shell Reference Guide.