Tools and Modules

Tools and Modules describes tools and modules associated with VMware GemFire.

• gfsh (VMware GemFire SHell)

  gfsh (pronounced “jee-fish”) provides a single, powerful command-line interface from which you can launch, manage, and monitor VMware GemFire processes, data, and applications.

• Gemcached

  Gemcached is a VMware GemFire adapter that allows Memcached clients to communicate with a VMware GemFire server cluster, as if the servers were memcached servers. Memcached is an open-source caching solution that uses a distributed, in-memory hash map to store key-value pairs of string or object data.

• HTTP Session Management Modules

  The VMware GemFire HTTP Session Management modules provide fast, scalable, and reliable session replication for HTTP servers without requiring application changes.

• Apache Lucene® Integration

  The Apache Lucene® integration enables users to create Lucene indexes and execute Lucene searches on data stored in VMware GemFire.

• Micrometer

  Micrometer is a simple facade for application monitoring (as SLF4J, for example, is a simple facade for logging) which allows publishing metrics from VMware GemFire to various Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools.

• Tanzu Observability by Wavefront

  The Tanzu GemFire metrics module provides out-of-the-box integration with Tanzu Observability by Wavefront.

• Pulse

  Pulse is a Web Application that provides a graphical dashboard for monitoring vital, real-time health and performance of VMware GemFire clusters, members, and regions.

• Visual Statistics Display (VSD)

  The Visual Statistics Display utility reads VMware GemFire statistics and produces graphical displays for analysis.