5.1
Table Of Contents
- Getting Started with vFabric Suite
- Table of Contents
- 1. About Getting Started with vFabric Suite
- 2. Quick Start Guide
- 3. Overview of vFabric Suite 5.1
- vFabric Suite Editions and Components
- vFabric Administration Server for Easier Component Management
- Simplified VM-Based Licensing Model
- vFabric Suite Product Integration and vSphere Integration
- Engineered for Spring-Built Applications
- 4. vFabric Licensing
- 5. Installing vFabric Suite
- Install vFabric License Server on Your vCenter Server
- Activate vFabric Suite Licenses
- RHEL: Example Walkthrough of Installing Component From the VMware RPM Repository
- Windows/Linux: Example Walkthrough of Installing Component from Download Page
- Upgrade vFabric License Server
- Uninstall vFabric License Server from vCenter Server
- 6. Monitoring vFabric License Usage
Overview of vFabric Suite 5.1 7
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3. Overview of vFabric Suite 5.1
The rise of cloud computing and IT as a service is driving dramatic changes in application infrastructure and development.
VMware® vFabric Suite™ components embrace 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 Suite 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 Suite Editions and Components
Simplified VM-Based Licensing Model
vFabric Administration Server for Easier Component Management
vFabric Suite Integration with vSphere and other VMware Products
Engineered for Spring-Built Applications
vFabric Suite Editions and Components
vFabric Suite is available in two editions, vFabric Suite Standard and vFabric Suite 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 Suite 5.1 Components and Packages
Component and Version Description
vFabric Suite Standard
Component
vFabric Suite Advanced
Component
vFabric tc Server 2.7 (Spring
Edition)
Lightweight application server,
fully compatible with Apache
Tomcat 7, that can be instantly
provisioned and elastically scaled.
Elastic Memory for Java (EM4J
1.1 ) is embedded with vFabric
tc Server (Spring Edition), and
Spring Insight Operations 1.8 is
available as a separate download.
Yes. Yes.
Elastic Memory for Java (EM4J
1.1)
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 1.8 Performance monitoring with real-
time, multi-layered visibility into
applications running on tc Server.
Yes. Yes.