About multiple virtual portals

 

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With WebSphere Portal V6.0 we can create and manage multiple virtual portals, which are logical portals that share the same hardware and software installation.

Here are some of the benefits of virtual portals:

  • Partition WebSphere Portal as business needs require.

  • Create additional portal environments without having to repeat complex hardware and software installations.

  • Provide different portal services for multiple customers and their users.

  • Provide separate portals for different, independent business units. For example, an international company can provide virtual portals for its marketing, production, and maintenance organizations in different countries.

  • Improved user experience:

    • Portal users cannot distinguish if their request is served by a normal portal installation or by a virtual portal that has been defined within a shared environment.

    • The different virtual portals show different pages with a different look and feel for different users, depending on their group membership.

    • URL mappings to the individual virtual portal URLs allow the use of user friendly URLs for accessing the virtual portals. Users can remember these mapped URLs.

  • A single portal installation can support up to one hundred virtual portals on a single hardware machine, because all virtual portal share the same JVM.

  • WebSphere Portal Version 6.0 provides a new administration portlet that allows you to create new virtual portals and manage existing ones.

  • User access to portal resources is separated for each virtual portal by means of Portal Access Control.

  • Portal resources that can exist individually for each virtual portal...

    • Some areas of portal configuration exist individually for each virtual portal, for example, the page hierarchy.

    • Most parts of portal administration exist individually for each virtual portal.

    • User populations can exist individually for each virtual portal, depending on the configuration of portal, realms, and LDAP.

    • Anonymous pages.

     

    Changes for multiple virtual portals provided by WebSphere Portal Version 6.0

    WebSphere Portal Version 6.0 enhances the possibilities of virtual portals by resolving the following limitations that applied to multiple portals under the previous version of WebSphere Portal :

    • Customization of a virtual portal includes anonymous pages now. These are pages that users can access without having to log in to the portal with their user ID and password. Consequently, we can now have a different default page displayed as a welcome page to the users of each virtual portal even before the users log in to that portal.

    • Configuration of virtual portals now includes a separate user population for each portal. Consequently, we can now separate the user populations of the individual virtual portals.

    • WebSphere Portal now provides a new administration portlet Virtual Portal Manager for creating and managing virtual portals.

     

    Related information

    1. Usage scenarios for virtual portals
    2. Planning for virtual portals
    3. Administering virtual portals
    4. Virtual portals reference
    5. Portal configuration
    6. The XML configuration interface
    7. Administering the portal

     

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