VMware vFabric Suite - 5.3 Getting Started
Getting Started with vFabric Suite
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Table of Contents
1. About Getting Started with vFabric Suite .................................................................................................. 1
Intended Audience ......................................................................................................................... 1
2. Quick Start Guide .............................................................................................................................. 3
3. Overview of vFabric Suite 5.3 ............................................................................................................... 7
vFabric Suite Editions and Components ............................................................................................... 7
Component Integration and Cross-Platform Consistency ............................................................................ 8
Optimized for vSphere and Spring-Built Applications ............................................................................... 9
Product Overviews ........................................................................................................................ 9
4. vFabric Suite Licensing ...................................................................................................................... 19
vFabric Suite Licensing Terminology ................................................................................................. 19
How vFabric Suite Licensing Works ................................................................................................. 19
Check the Validity of an Existing License Key ..................................................................................... 20
5. Installing vFabric License Server and Activating Your License ....................................................................... 23
Installing vFabric License Server on Your vCenter Server ........................................................................ 23
RHEL Only: Installing vFabric License Server Standalone ....................................................................... 27
Activate vFabric Suite Licenses ....................................................................................................... 31
Optionally Configure Computer to Track License Usage of OSS Components on RHEL .................................... 33
Upgrade vFabric License Server on vCenter Server ................................................................................ 35
Uninstall vFabric License Server from vCenter Server ............................................................................ 35
Uninstall Standalone vFabric License Server ........................................................................................ 36
6. Monitoring vFabric License Usage ......................................................................................................... 37
Monitor License Usage with Command-Line Tools ................................................................................ 37
License Monitoring: Command Reference ........................................................................................... 38
Monitor License Usage with the vFabric License Server Reporting UI ......................................................... 44
Display the Component Events File in Readable Format .......................................................................... 45
vCenter License Reporting Manager .................................................................................................. 47
7. FAQ: vFabric Suite Integration and Off-Cycle Releases ............................................................................... 49
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About Getting Started with vFabric
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1. About Getting Started with vFabric Suite
Revised April 23, 2013.
Getting Started with vFabric Suite describes product concepts and initial setup tasks for VMware® vFabric Suite™ products.
Read this documentation for an overview of vFabric Suite components; to familiarize yourself with the licensing infrastructure;
and to see walkthrough procedures for installing vFabric Suite components.
Intended Audience
Getting Started with vFabric Suite is intended for experienced Windows and Linux developers and system administrators who
want to learn about vFabric Suite and its included components; install the vFabric License Server on an existing VMware®
vCenter™ Server; and understand how vFabric licensing works.
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2. Quick Start Guide
This section guides you through the end-to-end process of installing vFabric Suite in a vSphere environment, or more
specifically, installing one vFabric component on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) virtual machine in the context of
vFabric Suite. In particular, the procedure describes how to perform the following tasks:
• Create an ODBC data source on the Windows computer running vCenter Server that connects to either the database system
used by vCenter Server or to a separate database system.
In this Quick Start Guide, it is assumed you are using a SQL Server database system, although you can also use other database
system such as Oracle.
• Install vFabric License Server on the same computer as your vCenter Server.
• Activate a vFabric license.
• Install the VMware repository RPM on the RHEL virtual machine (VM), which makes it easy for you to browse the available
vFabric RPMs.
• Install one vFabric component (vFabric tc Server) on the RHEL VM from the VMware RPM repository.
The procedure assumes a vSphere environment, although you can also install the vFabric License Server standalone in a physical
or Amazon EC2 environment. The procedure shows you how to complete the entire installation process as quickly as possible,
with minimal explanation of what each step means. For more details, and information about the standalone vFabric License
Server, see Installing vFabric Suite.
Prerequisites
• Install and configure vCenter Server and vSphere Client on a Windows computer.
See vSphere Installation and Setup.
• Create the database instance that will contain vFabric license data. See Guidelines for Creating the vFabric License Server
Database Instance.
• Create a virtual machine (VM) and install Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) as the guest operating system.
See vSphere Virtual Machine Administration.
• Install VMware Tools on the VM.
See Installing and Configuring VMware Tools.
• Ensure that the Windows computer on which vCenter Server is running has the SQL Server Native Client ODBC
driver installed on it; if not, download and install the driver from the Microsoft SQL Server Web site.
Procedure
1. Create an ODBC data source that connects to the vFabric database instance on either the vCenter database system,
or an external database.
a. On the Windows computer on which you are running vCenter Server, invoke the ODBC Data Source Administrator
window using Start > Programs > Administrative Tools > Data Source (ODBC).
b. Click the System DSN tab.
c. Click the Add... button.
d. Select the SQL Server Native Client driver, then click Finish.
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e. Enter a name and description of the data source, then select the SQL Server and database instance you want this data
source to connect to from the drop-down list. The SQL Server database system can be either the one used by the
vCenter Server or a separate one, whichever works best for your environment. Click Next.
f. Specify that you want SQL server to verify the authenticity using a login ID and password entered by the user, then
enter the Login ID and password of the SQL Server user. This database user must have privileges to load the schema.
VMware recommends that you not specify integrated Windows authentication.
g. Continue clicking Next, and then Finish, taking all default values, until you see a summary of the data source
configuration. Test the data source to ensure you have configured it correctly, then click OK.
2. From the Windows computer on which you are running vCenter Server, download the vFabric License Server installer from
the VMware Download Center page and save it to your computer.
The installer program is called vFabric_License_Server-version.exe.
3. Install the vFabric License Server on the same computer as your vCenter Server.
a. Double-click on the installer from Windows Explorer to start the installation. After preparing the installation, the
vFabric Welcome Screen appears.
b. Continue clicking Next to accept the license agreement and view where the installer will install the vFabric License
Server.
c. Enter the credentials of the vCenter user who has the appropriate privileges to register the vFabric License Server as an
extension. At a minimum, the user must have the following vCenter privileges:
• Extension.Register
• Extension.Update
Click Next to continue.
d. Enter the login ID and password of the database user, and select the ODBC data source (DSN) that you created in a
preceding step.
e. Click Install to proceed with the installation.
The installer program completes successfully when you see the message InstallShield Wizard Completed. Click Finish
to complete the installation.
f. Restart your vCenter Server to enable the vFabric License Server changes.
4. Make a note of the license key that you purchased for vFabric Suite. VMware license keys consist of groups of characters
separated by dashes, such as 123AA-123BB-123CC-123DD-123EE.
5. Activate the vFabric license keys in vCenter Server.
a. Start vSphere Client and log in to the vCenter Server in which you installed vFabric License Server.
Note: This procedure shows how to use version 5.0 of vSphere Client.
b. Select Home>Administration>Licensing to invoke the vCenter Licensing page, then click the Manage vSphere
Licenses link in the top-right corner.
c. Enter one or more license keys in the text window to the right, one license key per line. Enter an optional label.
d. Click the Add License Keys button. The license keys shows up in the review window.
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e. Follow the prompts until you get to the Confirm Changes window, verify changes, and click Finish.
The license keys are displayed in the main vCenter Licensing window under the name VMware vFabric Suite
Standard|Advanced, depending on the vFabric Suite package you purchased.
6. Install the VMware repository RPM on the RHEL VM.
a. Log in to the RHEL VM as the root user (or user with sudo privileges) and start a terminal.
b. Run the following wget command, passing it the appropriate URL. The URL differs depending on the version of
RHEL you are using.
Important: You must run the entire wget command on a single line. Be sure you include the | sh at the end, or the
RPM installation will not work.
For RHEL 5:
prompt# wget -q -O - http://repo.vmware.com/pub/rhel5/vfabric/5.3/vfabric-5.3-suite-installer | sh
For RHEL 6:
prompt# wget -q -O - http://repo.vmware.com/pub/rhel6/vfabric/5.3/vfabric-5.3-suite-installer | sh
If necessary, use sudo to run the preceding commands if you are not logged in as the root user.
7. Install vFabric tc Server on the RHEL VM.
a. Log in to the VM as the root user (or user with sudo privileges) and start a terminal.
b. Execute the following yum install command to install vFabric tc Server:
prompt# yum install vfabric-tc-server-standard
If necessary, use sudo to run the preceding commands if you are not logged in as the root user.
The yum command displays information about the contents of the installation.
c. Enter y at the prompt to begin the installation.
If the installation is successful, you will see a Complete! message at the end.
The yum command installed tc Server in the /opt/vmware/vfabric-tc-server-standard directory.
What to do next
• Install additional vFabric components on the RHEL VM, such as vFabric Hyperic or vFabric RabbitMQ. See Installing vFabric
Suite.
• If your vFabric license includes open-source software (OSS) support and you have OSS components (such as Tomcat Apache)
running on the VM, configure the VM to track their usage.
• Monitor the vFabric Suite license usage by querying the vFabric License Server. See Monitoring vFabric License Usage.
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3. Overview of vFabric Suite 5.3
Cloud computing and IT as a service continue to transform application infrastructure and development. VMware® vFabric
Suite™ drives this change by integrating the familiar Spring Developer Frameworks with a proven set of services that span the
lifecycle of modern application development, deployment, and management. Engineered for VMware vSphere® virtualization
and cloud environments, vFabric Suite offers advantages for users throughout the enterprise.
• Application developers and architects get tools that let them build data-intensive, Web-oriented applications quickly and
reliably.
• IT gets an agile platform that makes applications easy to deploy, instantly scalable, and portable across clouds.
• End users get applications that are data rich, quick to access, and always available.
Subtopics
vFabric Suite Editions and Components
Component Integration and Cross-Platform Consistency
Optimized for vSphere and Spring-Built Applications
Product Overviews
vFabric Suite Editions and Components
vFabric Suite is available in two commercial editions, vFabric Suite Standard and vFabric Suite Advanced.
Table 3.1. vFabric Suite 5.3 Editions and Components
Component and Version Description
vFabric tc Server 2.9 (Spring
Edition)
Elastic Memory for Java (EM4J
1.3)
Spring Insight Operations 1.9 Performance monitoring with real-
Lightweight application server,
fully compatible with Apache
Tomcat 7, that can be instantly
provisioned and elastically scaled.
Elastic Memory for Java (EM4J
1.3 ) is packaged with vFabric
tc Server (Spring Edition), and
Spring Insight Operations 1.9 is
available as a separate download.
Memory management technology
that enables you to run more Java
applications on your ESXi servers
than previously possible. EM4J
helps maintain Java application
performance and reliability while
freeing memory that allows you to
run more VMs per host. An EM4J
plug-in is now available for the
vSphere Web Client.
time, multi-layered visibility into
applications running on tc Server.
vFabric Suite Standard
Component
Yes. Yes.
Yes. Yes.
Yes. Yes.
vFabric Suite Advanced
Component
vFabric Hyperic 5.0 Proactive performance
vFabric GemFire 7.0 (Application
Cache Node)
management with complete and
constant visibility into applications
and infrastructure.
Data management platform that
provides real-time, consistent
access to data across widely
Yes. Yes.
Yes. Yes.
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distributed cloud architectures.
GemFire Application Cache Node
is the vFabric Suite offering for
vFabric GemFire.
vFabric Web Server 5.3 Precompiled and pretuned Web
vFabric RabbitMQ 3.0 De facto standard for cloud
vFabric SQLFire 1.1
(Professional)
vFabric Application Director 5.0
(Provisioning)
server and load-balancing service
that dynamically routes requests
to an application server for
processing. vFabric Web Server
is fully compatible with Apache
Web Server.
messaging and leading
implementer of AMQP. Delivers
highly available, scalable,
and portable messaging with
predictable, consistent throughput
and latency.
Memory-optimized, distributed
database management system
that provides extremely high
throughput; predictable latency;
dynamic and linear scalability;
and continuous availability of
data.
Cloud-enabled application
provisioning solution that
simplifies how to create
and standardize application
deployment topologies across
cloud services.
vFabric Suite Standard
Component
Yes. Yes.
No. Yes.
No. Yes.
No. Yes.
vFabric Suite Advanced
Component
vFabric Postgres 9.2 (Standard
Edition)
ACID-compliant, ANSI-SQLcompliant transactional and
relational database designed
for the virtual environment and
optimized for vSphere.
No. Yes.
Component Integration and Cross-Platform Consistency
VMware performs full integration testing on each component in a vFabric Suite release.
Key integration points:
• vFabric Hyperic plug-ins are provided for each vFabric Suite 5.3 component. From a single management console, you can
remotely monitor and manage all vFabric Suite components and applications, installed on multiple computers.
• User interfaces implement consistent LDAP integration for authentication in vFabric EM4J (vSphere console), Spring Insight,
vFabric RabbitMQ (Admin UI), and vFabric Hyperic.
• A common API provides a consistent product interaction model. All products implement consistent REST and JSON API
behavior.
• Application Director services are available for all versions of vFabric components included in vFabric Suite 5.3. Optimized for
vFabric runtime components, vFabric Application Director is a cloud-enabled application provisioning solution that accelerates
and automates the configuration and deployment of multi-tier applications.
• Spring Insight Operations provides automatic instrumentation of Spring applications running on tc Server, exposing
application performance from both general and fine-grained perspectives.
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• Hyperic- Spring Insight integration enables you to move from Hyperic to Insight, in the same application context, to diagnose
the underlying problem. See tc Server Plug-In for Easier Management and Monitoring.
• vFabric GemFire includes an HTTP session management module for tc Server that provide fast, scalable, and reliable session
replication without requiring application changes.
• A sample application, Spring Trader, demonstrates how products in vFabric Suite work together.
• For details on vFabric Suite integration with vSphere and Spring, see Optimized for vSphere and Spring-Built Applications.
Optimized for vSphere and Spring-Built Applications
Tight integration between vFabric Suite and vSphere enables you to achieve higher levels of software density, higher utilization
rates on hardware, and the cost benefits of dynamic scalability. Through integration with vSphere solutions, vFabric also offers
application portability and vendor choice across private and public clouds
More than half of Java developers use Spring's open-source platform to build rich Web applications for virtual and cloud
environments. Spring minimizes vendor lock-in, enables code to run in diverse environments, and helps applications retain value
as environments and business priorities change. Spring Mobile, Spring Android, and Spring Social extend the framework with the
ability to run on the newest generation of devices.
vFabric Suite components are engineered to leverage vSphere and the efficiencies of Spring-built applications.
• vFabric Elastic Memory for Java (EM4J) enables memory to be shared dynamically among Java virtual machine (JVM)
instances without sacrificing performance. With EM4J, you can deploy more application server VMs on each vSphere host
to increase server consolidation, and automatically allocate Java heap memory to JVMs that need it most. EM4J's monitoring
GUI supports vSphere 5.1.
• Spring Insight Operations, available with vFabric tc Server Spring Edition, provides a dashboard view of Spring application
performance metrics in real-time. Developers can test, tune, and debug applications from their desktops, without changing
code. Automatic instrumentation of Spring applications running on tc Server expose application performance from both
general and fine-grained perspectives.
• To encourage agile development and testing, vFabric tc Server and Spring Insight are tightly integrated with SpringSource
Tool Suite™ (STS). STS is an Eclipse-powered development environment that includes the latest Spring (Core, Rich Web,
Integration, Batch), Groovy, Grails, and Roo technologies as well as OSGi tools. See SpringSource STS.
• vFabric tc Server Spring Edition includes commercial support for Spring-built applications, as well as for vFabric tc Server.
• Developers can incorporate vFabric GemFire data caching into their Spring applications with minimal code, providing globally
distributed, highly available data.
• vFabric RabbitMQ-based messaging solutions incorporate core Spring concepts, enabling developers to easily add AMQP
messaging to their applications.
Product Overviews
The following sections describe key features and functionality of vFabric Suite components. For more detailed information, see
the product documentation and release notes for each component.
vFabric tc Server 2.9 (Spring Edition)
VMware® vFabric™ tc Server is 100-percent compatible with Apache Tomcat 7. It has all the runtime advantages of Tomcat,
plus operational management, advanced diagnostics, mission-critical support, and unmatched visibility into Spring-powered
applications — none of which are available in the open source product. vFabric tc Server Spring Edition includes all of the
components and features of tc Standard Edition, plus Spring Insight Operations, Elastic Memory for Java (EM4J), and Spring
commercial support.
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tc Server harnesses the power of traditional JEE architectures while eliminating their complexity and performance drawbacks,
making it easier, faster, and more cost-effective to build and run cloud-ready applications. With its lean architecture and small,
10MB memory footprint, tc Server requires significantly fewer resources than conventional servers, which allows for greater
server density in virtual and cloud environments. tc Server supports integration with VMware tools and vFabric Hyperic, and
provides templates for vFabric GemFire session replication.
Main features of vFabric tc Server (Spring Edition):
• Compatible with existing Apache Tomcat applications, thus eliminating migration costs and cycles.
• Parallel deployment. Deploy multiple revisions of the same application at the same time so you can roll out a new revision of
an application without affecting users.
• Automatic instance upgrades. A script lets you easily upgrade earlier instances to function with the latest version.
• Automated deployment of applications to multiple instances of tc Server and standardized templates for rapid provisioning of
new instances.
• Commercial support for vFabric tc Server and Spring Framework.
• Elastic Memory for Java (EM4J). Included with tc Server Spring Edition, EM4J allows Java workloads to cooperate more fully
with ESXi advanced memory-sharing technologies. EM4J helps maintain Java application performance and reliability while
freeing memory so you can run more VMs per host, improving your consolidation ratio.
• Spring Insight Operations. Available with tc Server Spring Edition, Spring Insight Operations is a Web application that gives
you real-time, detailed visibility into application behavior and performance. Insight Operations is optimized for monitoring and
tuning Spring-built applications in production.
For new feature information, see vFabric tc Server Release Notes.
vFabric EM4J 1.3
Elastic Memory for Java (EM4J) revolutionizes the virtualization of Java applications.
Previously, if you ran Java on VMware ESXi, you had to reserve 100% of the configured memory for a VM running Java
applications or risk serious performance problems. To determine the optimum size of the Java heap, you determined the
application's peak requirement. Allocating less could mean unacceptable performance, errors, or crashes; allocating more than
was necessary wasted memory.
EM4J changes all that. You can run more Java applications on your ESXi servers than previously possible, and Java applications
can now effectively leverage ESXi's industry-leading memory sharing technology.
Main features of vFabric EM4J:
• Balloon that sits directly in the Java heap and works with a new memory-sharing interface introduced in ESXi 5.0. ESXi can
share available memory in the Java heap among VMs as needed, while preserving application performance and reliability.
• Ability to size the Java heap to accommodate the peak workload, without wasting or running out of memory. Any excess
memory is ballooned away and redistributed where it is needed.
• Ability to create more VMs and pack more tc Server instances onto a single vSphere host.
• Reduced possibility of out-of-memory errors that can cripple applications.
• EM4J plug-in for vSphere Web Client that lets you monitor EM4J configuration and memory performance for EM4J-enabled
Java workloads in the vSphere Web Client. View Java workload statistics for selected VMs; detailed information about JVM
process and memory usage; alerts; and suggested best practices.
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For new feature information, see vFabric EM4J Release Notes.
Spring Insight Operations 1.9
Spring Insight Operations gives you real-time, granular visibility into application behavior and performance in production
environments. It is a Web application that runs with tc Server Spring Edition and is a separate download.
Insight Operations graphs the health of an application over time for the entire cluster and for each server in the cluster.
Administrators see application and server problems as they occur, with detailed information about contributing events, presented
in one unified dashboard. You can quickly identify under performing servers, server errors, and trace details for specific events
and exceptions.
VMware partners with Google to integrate Spring Insight data into SpeedTracer, a Google Chrome extension that analyzes
how your application is performing inside the browser and that ties browser performance to backend performance. If your Web
application uses Ajax and other rich open Web technologies, try SpeedTracer with Spring Insight.
Main features of Spring Insight Operations:
• Automatic instrumentation of Spring applications running on tc Server expose application performance from both general and
fine-grained perspectives.
• Isolation of performance problems by application, endpoint, application server, and method.
• Tracking of performance over time, to understand whether problems are chronic or spurious.
• Response-time histograms that reveal whether performance problems affect many users, or a small subset.
• High-performing instrumentation with sub-microsecond impact to application response time, designed for applications in
production.
• Integration with vFabric Hyperic that enables operations and development teams to view a single set of both server-oriented
and application-oriented performance, and collaborate more effectively to fix performance problems faster. Spring Insight
metrics give Hyperic a broader range of data for triggering alerts and for control actions that implement automatic problem
remediation.
For new feature information, see vFabric tc Server Release Notes.
vFabric Hyperic 5.0
VMware® vFabric™ Hyperic® provides more than 50,000 performance metrics on more than 75 technologies at every layer of
the application infrastructure. It consolidates complete discovery, monitoring, analysis and control of all application, system, and
network assets -- including other vFabric Suite components -- both inside and outside of virtual machines powered by VMware.
Hyperic provides proactive performance management through transparent visibility into dynamic applications deployed across
physical, virtual, and cloud environments.
At startup, Hyperic automatically discovers and adds new servers and VMs to inventory; configures monitoring parameters; and
collects performance metrics and events. This level of automation lets you deploy fully monitored VMs with minimal effort and
scale out monitoring across your virtual infrastructure.
Main features of vFabric Hyperic:
• Simplifies management of virtualized applications by maintaining a continually updated inventory of vSphere ESXi and ESX
hosts, their virtual machines, and guest operating systems.
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• Single unified dashboard for managing and monitoring performance across all application tiers.
• tc Server plug-in for easier, remote management and monitoring of multiple tc Server instances and applications. See tc Server
Plug-In for Easier Management and Monitoring.
• Spring Insight plug-In for in-depth application monitoring. The plug-in makes it easier to discover whether a problem is
infrastructure or application-related. See Spring Insight Plug-In for In-Depth Application Metrics.
• Centralized plug-in manager that synchronizes Hyperic plug-ins between Hyperic Server and all Hyperic Agents in the
environment, enabling system administrators to easily configure and upgrade agents distributed across hundreds of servers.
• iPad and iPhone support.
• Deeper integration with LDAP that enables the automatic import of existing LDAP user groups to preassign roles to users.
• Auto-discovery across all operating systems that run on vSphere and in disparate run-time environments, from Java to .NET.
• Bridges the gap between virtual and physical: compares guest and host metrics (CPU, memory, disk utilization); relates
physical and virtual performance to individual applications.
• Advanced alerting: role-based, time-based (for geographically dispersed teams), server group-based, and so on. Automated
alert responses and alert escalation processes.
• Ability to resolve a broad range of issues without human intervention, often before end users notice, with automated
remediation that reduces mean time-to-resolution and ensures service level agreement (SLA) compliance.
• Plug-in framework that extends management and monitoring to any environment. Through the framework, Hyperic can
discover, monitor, and control any application or device using a straightforward Java/XML API.
• Scales dependably from the ground up — to more than 1,000 servers and one million metrics per minute with a single Hyperic
Server.
For new feature information, see vFabric Hyperic Release Notes.
tc Server Plug-In for Easier Management and Monitoring
The Hyperic tc Server plug-in enables you to remotely manage vFabric tc Server instances and applications on multiple
computers. Hyperic provides a single console with powerful dashboards through which you can:
• Manage the lifecycle of tc Runtime instances by starting, stopping, and restarting a local or remote instance.
• Manage the lifecycle of a group of tc Runtime instances that are distributed over a network of computers.
• Configure a single instance of tc Runtime. Configuration options include the various port numbers to which the tc Runtime
instance listens, JVM options such as heap size and enabling debugging, default server values for JSPs and static content,
JDBC datasources, various tc Runtime connectors, and so on.
• Deploy a Web application from an accessible file system, either local or remote. You can deploy to a single tc Runtime
instance or to a predefined group of servers.
• Manage the lifecycle of applications deployed to a single tc Runtime instance or group of servers. Application lifecycle
operations include start, stop, redeploy, undeploy, and reload.
Spring Insight Plug-In for Detailed Application Metrics
vFabric Hyperic includes the Spring Insight plug-in. The plug-in enables a Hyperic Agent running on a tc Server instance to autodiscover web applications running on that instance and to obtain detailed, real-time application health and request metrics. You
can apply alerting on those metrics, as you can with other Hyperic resources and metrics. A new interface view of application
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metrics associates the application to currently monitored Hyperic resources such as application servers, database servers, the
operating system, and specific resource types. By providing all of this information on one screen, Hyperic makes it easier to
pinpoint whether the problem is infrastructure- or application-related. If the application is the culprit, Hyperic-Insight integration
enables you to move from Hyperic to Insight, in the same application context, to diagnose the underlying problem.
vFabric GemFire 7.0 (Application Cache Node)
VMware® vFabric™ GemFire® is a high performance, in-memory distributed data management solution that scales elastically at
runtime, ensuring fast, reliable data access in the cloud and across the enterprise. GemFire is language- and infrastructure-neutral,
which enables data-sharing across existing process, software, and hardware boundaries.
Business events often require many people to see the same information at the same time in globally distributed environments.
These demands strain IT resources, degrade performance, and increase costs for bandwidth, hardware, and personnel. GemFire
addresses the problem by provisioning consistent data dynamically at the right place, at the right time, and in the right format in
memory. Using dynamic replication and data partitioning techniques, GemFire offers continuous availability, high performance
and linear scalability for data-intensive applications without compromising data consistency, even under failure conditions. Data
virtualization provides data location transparency and decouples data access logic from applications.
The vFabric Suite offering for vFabric GemFire is the Application Cache Node, which provides peer-to-peer
functionality. You can buy an additional, separate license, Data Management Node, which includes client/server
and global WAN functionality. For details, see the vFabric GemFire documentation.
Main features of vFabric GemFire:
• Applications run 4 to 40 times faster with no additional hardware.
• Data awareness and real-time business intelligence. If data changes as you retrieve it, you see the changes immediately.
• Re-engineered APIs and integration with Spring Framework speed and simplify the development of scalable, transactional
enterprise applications.
• HTTP session replication provides linear scalability, and integrates cleanly with tc Server.
• Fixed partitioned regions, for greater control of deployment options.
• Portable Data eXchange (PDX) serialization, which provides reduced object size to store more data with less memory, and
Language independence for better integration with .NET.
• Faster startup and recovery for persistent regions.
• Client-initiated transactions.
• Client querying using parameters.
• Combines redundancy, WAN replication, and a “shared nothing” persistence architecture to deliver fail-safe reliability and
performance.
• Continuous querying to provide active data change notifications.
• Horizontally scalable to thousands of cache nodes, with multiple cache topologies to meet different enterprise needs. The
cache can be distributed across multiple computers.
• Support for asynchronous and synchronous cache update propagation.
• Optimized low latency distribution layer for reliable asynchronous event notifications and guaranteed message delivery.
For new feature information, see vFabric GemFire Release Notes.
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