VMware VFABRIC TC SERVER User manual

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OPTIMIZED FOR SPRING
IDEAL FOR VIRTUAL
With Spring Insight, free with VMware vFabric™
tc Server Developer Edition, developers gain deep
performance insight into Spring applications
during the development process.
And with vFabric tc Server Spring Edition you can
extend that same visibility for your application
operators in a production environment.
With a memory footprint of 10MB, vFabric tc Server
is ideally suited for modern virtual and cloud
environments.
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VMware vFabric tc Server™
The Best Place to Build and Run Spring Applications
VMware Overview
VMware vFabric tc Server is the runtime server at the heart of
the VMware vFabric Cloud Application Platform. Available in
Spring Edition, Standard Edition and Developer Edition, tc Server
is the best place build and run your Spring applications and with
its lightweight footprint it is ideally suited for virtual and cloud
environments. And as an enterprise version of Apache Tomcat,
tc Server adds core capabilities to enable developer eciency,
operational control and deployment flexibility all backed by
mission-critical support.
The Spring container has replaced the EJB container in a
majority of enterprise Java applications to become the de facto
standard for enterprise Java. Spring has also been a key driver of
the adoption of Tomcat, which is now used by more than
70 percent of organizations, according to a recent Evans Data
Study. And the Spring–Tomcat stack powers many of the world’s
most demanding applications across retail, banking,
manufacturing, healthcare and other industry segments.
tc Server provides the powerful, lightweight benefits of Tomcat,
along with important enterprise class features that organizations
require. It is suited for organizations currently using Spring with
legacy Java EE servers and that are considering migrating o
expensive and heavyweight application servers, and also for
current Tomcat users who need additional operational
management and diagnostics capabilities together with
enterprise support.

VMware vFabric tc Server
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Key Highlights
tc Server is designed to support the entire application lifecycle
with a lightweight platform that is ideally suited for building and
running modern applications.Developer Eciency
Optimized for running Spring applications, the world’s most
widely used Java development framework, tc Server includes
core capabilities designed to enhance the eciency of
Spring developers:
• Using the Spring Insight console (included with Developer
Edition) developers can obtain a dashboard view of real-time
Spring application performance metrics. Without changing
their code, developers can use Spring Insight to detect, analyze
and diagnose application performance issues right from their
desktops.
• Developers will be immediately familiar with vFabric tc Server
since it is based on the popular Tomcat Server that is in use at
70 percent of organizations today.
Operations Management
tc Server provides operations management and monitoring of
servers and applications for a single instance or across many
nodes, from a single console. Capabilities include:
Application management
• Native Spring instrumentation to enable fine grain application
monitoring in production
• List all applications running in a distributed collection of
server instances
• Target, deploy and un-deploy applications to distributed
server instances
• Control application parameters like caching and JSP behavior
Server management
• Remote configuration control for server instances
• Define virtual hosts, access logs and web server integration
• Configure JVM parameters, such as Java heap size and
garbage collection
• Dynamic control and resizing of thread pools without
server restart
• Define server groups
Advanced Server Diagnostics
tc Server provides advanced diagnostics, such as thread lock
detection and automatic and on-demand failure logging to
enable swift isolation, diagnosis and repair of issues.
Features include:
• Application thread lock detection provides warnings when
threads compete for restricted resources in a way that would
compromise application integrity
• Configurable automatic and on-demand thread and heap
dumping for failure and exception analysis
• Thread to URL association for faster diagnosis when analyzing
problems with request processing
Deployment Flexibility
Deploy your applications to physical or virtual hosts
• Lightweight server (10MB) ideal for virtual environments
• Template-driven server instance creation to simplify and
accelerate deployment
• Integrated experience with VMware environments
Selected Customers
“Test and live deployments are taking the developers
literally a couple of minutes with vFabric tc Server – where
they used to take up to two hours on Oracle WebLogic.
The throughput on vFabric tc Server is at least 3X greater
than WebLogic and the CPU and load on the production
servers is about half”
— Shaun Perkinson, Associated Newspapers
“Without vFabric tc Server, I could not have deployed my
web-based applications into the private cloud environment
I created. vFabric tc Server’s small footprint allows me to
deploy a dozen app server instances on one physical box
virtualized by VMware, with plenty of capacity left over”
— John Brisbin, NPC International