5.0

Introducing vFabric Cloud Application
Platform 5.0
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3. Introducing vFabric Cloud Application Platform 5.0
The rise of cloud computing and IT as a service is driving dramatic changes in application infrastructure and development.
VMware® vFabric™ Cloud Application Platform (vFabric Platform) embraces this shift 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 Spring Framework and VMware vSphere® virtualization, vFabric Platform includes tc Server with EM4J, Spring
Insight Operations, GemFire Application Cache Node, Hyperic Server and Agent, RabbitMQ, SQLFire, and Web Server. The
platform brings significant benefits to stake holders throughout the enterprise:
• Application developers and architects get tools that let them build data-intensive, Web-oriented applications quickly and
reliably. A per-VM licensing model gives them more latitude to amend application architecture with fewer licensing
constraints.
• 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 Platform Application Services and Packages
Simplified VM-Based Licensing Model
Integration with vSphere
Engineered for Spring-Built Applications
vFabric Platform Application Services and Packages
vFabric Platform 5.0 is available in two packages, VMware® vFabric™ Standard and VMware® vFabric™ Advanced, as
indicated in the table. The sections that follow describe how each component is optimized to meet the demands of modern
applications in virtual and cloud environments.
Table 3.1. vFabric Platform 5.0 Components and Packages
Component and Version Description vFabric Standard Component vFabric Advanced Component
vFabric tc Server 2.6 Lightweight application server,
fully compatible with Apache
Tomcat 7, that can be instantly
provisioned and elastically scaled.
Elastic Memory for Java (EM4J
1.0 ) is embedded with vFabric
tc Server (Spring Edition), and
Spring Insight Operations 1.5 is
available as a separate download.
Yes. Yes.
Elastic Memory for Java (EM4J
1.0)
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.
Yes. Yes.
Spring Insight Operations 1.5 Performance monitoring with real-
time, multi-layered visibility into
applications running on tc Server.
Yes. Yes.