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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 Suite Standard
Component
vFabric Suite Advanced
Component
vFabric tc Server 2.9 (Spring
Edition)
Lightweight application server,
fully compatible with Apache
Tomcat 7, that can be instantly
provisioned and elastically scaled.
Elastic Memory for Java (EM4J
1.3 ) is packaged with vFabric
tc Server (Spring Edition), and
Spring Insight Operations 1.9 is
available as a separate download.
Yes. Yes.
Elastic Memory for Java (EM4J
1.3)
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 1.9 Performance monitoring with real-
time, multi-layered visibility into
applications running on tc Server.
Yes. Yes.
vFabric Hyperic 5.0 Proactive performance
management with complete and
constant visibility into applications
and infrastructure.
Yes. Yes.
vFabric GemFire 7.0 (Application
Cache Node)
Data management platform that
provides real-time, consistent
access to data across widely
Yes. Yes.