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8 vFabric Suite
8 Overview of vFabric Suite 5.3
Component and Version Description
vFabric Suite Standard
Component
vFabric Suite Advanced
Component
distributed cloud architectures.
GemFire Application Cache Node
is the vFabric Suite offering for
vFabric GemFire.
vFabric Web Server 5.3 Precompiled and pretuned Web
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.
Yes. Yes.
vFabric RabbitMQ 3.0 De facto standard for cloud
messaging and leading
implementer of AMQP. Delivers
highly available, scalable,
and portable messaging with
predictable, consistent throughput
and latency.
No. Yes.
vFabric SQLFire 1.1
(Professional)
Memory-optimized, distributed
database management system
that provides extremely high
throughput; predictable latency;
dynamic and linear scalability;
and continuous availability of
data.
No. Yes.
vFabric Application Director 5.0
(Provisioning)
Cloud-enabled application
provisioning solution that
simplifies how to create
and standardize application
deployment topologies across
cloud services.
No. Yes.
vFabric Postgres 9.2 (Standard
Edition)
ACID-compliant, ANSI-SQL-
compliant 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.