This topic lists the topics in this documentation set that discuss recommended usage and limitations when using VMware Tanzu GemFire for Tanzu Application Service.
- See Design Patterns for descriptions of the variety of design patterns that GemFire for Tanzu Application Service supports.
- GemFire for Tanzu Application Service stores objects in key/value format, where the value can be any object.
- Using PDX objects as region entry keys is highly discouraged. For more information, see Using PDX Objects as Region Entry Keys.
Limitations
- See gfsh Command Restrictions for limitations on the use of gfsh commands.
- GemFire for Tanzu Application Service does not support scaling down the cluster.
- GemFire for Tanzu Application Service does not support plan migrations. The
-p
option to the cf update-service
command is not supported.
- GemFire for Tanzu Application Service does not publish locator metrics for service instances created as Co-located Single VM plans or Co-located Multi VM plans.
- The Tanzu GemFire Developer REST API is not available for data operations.
- Because VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs applications are stateless, do not use the Tanzu GemFire durable client feature.