5.3
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 5.3
- vFabric Suite Editions and Components
- Component Integration and Cross-Platform Consistency
- Optimized for vSphere and Spring-Built Applications
- Product Overviews
- vFabric tc Server 2.9 (Spring Edition)
- vFabric EM4J 1.3
- Spring Insight Operations 1.9
- vFabric Hyperic 5.0
- vFabric GemFire 7.0 (Application Cache Node)
- vFabric RabbitMQ 3.0
- vFabric Web Server 5.3
- vFabric SQLFire 1.1 (Professional)
- vFabric Application Director 5.0 (Provisioning)
- vFabric Postgres 9.2 (Standard Edition)
- 4. vFabric Suite Licensing
- 5. Installing vFabric License Server and Activating Your License
- Installing vFabric License Server on Your vCenter Server
- RHEL Only: Installing vFabric License Server Standalone
- Activate vFabric Suite Licenses
- Optionally Configure Computer to Track License Usage of OSS Components on RHEL
- Upgrade vFabric License Server on vCenter Server
- Uninstall vFabric License Server from vCenter Server
- Uninstall Standalone vFabric License Server
- 6. Monitoring vFabric License Usage
- 7. FAQ: vFabric Suite Integration and Off-Cycle Releases
Overview of vFabric Suite 5.3 11
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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.