Note: This version of the VDT (1.11.0) is no longer supported. Feel free to look through the documentation and install it, but we cannot guarantee support for it. The current stable release is 2.0.0.
Globus 4 is run in its own container, not within Tomcat. Because we already have several known services that run within Tomcat, Globus 4 is running on a non-standard port: 9443 instead of 8443. If you wish to change this, just edit the globus-ws init script. Also note that we have a workaround for this problem.
Globus does not support MDS 2 on 64-bit platforms (IA64 or x86-64). We used to provide the 32-bit version on x86-64, but due to the fact that we now link against the OS-provided OpenSSL which is 64-bit, we don't support MDS 2 on 64-bit platforms at all.
We have been unable to get working 32-bit installations on IA-64 machines (using VDT_PRETEND_32). On RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 (AS), running the 32-bit globus-rls-server binary consistently locked up the test machine, necessitating a hard reboot; if the RLS init script was installed in /etc/rc.d/init.d, rebooting caused the machine to lock up. On an IA-64 Scientific Linux 4 machine, all 32-bit binaries would refuse to run, preventing the installation from completing. Despite trying hard to fix these problems, they remain.
See the separate Mac OS X page for known problems on the platform.