VMware vFabric RabbitMQ
Messaging That Just Works

Overview:

To improve scalability, flexibility and the end-user experience, modern Web applications make extensive use of messaging— both to communicate among their own components and to connect to other services. Without messaging, an application runs at the speed of its slowest component. Messaging decouples application components so that they can work asynchronously and get their respective jobs done more quickly.

Modern Web application architectures require a fundamentally different type of messaging software, one that is:

• Lightweight enough to embed throughout an application
• Easy enough to use that many developers across many teams will adopt it
• Flexible enough to integrate heterogeneous application components and systems

VMware® vFabric™ RabbitMQ™ meets these requirements to provide robust messaging for custom Web applications. It is easy to use, fit for purpose at cloud scale, and supported on all major operating systems and developer platforms.

RabbitMQ provides the robust and reliable intersystem messaging that is critical for cloud-based applications. A key element of the VMware vFabric Cloud Application Platform, RabbitMQ delivers highly available, scalable and portable messaging with predictable and consistent throughput and latency. RabbitMQ is open sourced under the Mozilla Public License. VMware offers services and support designed to enable RabbitMQ customers to meet their needs quickly and safely.

Messaging for Modern Applications

• Improves the scalability, speed and user experience of your custom Web applications by decoupling application components and enabling asynchronous interapplication communications
• Provides unprecedented connectivity, due to protocolbased messaging that enables the integration of heterogeneous application components and systems— unlike traditional, API-based enterprise message bus (ESB) software
• Supports a full range of standard Internet protocols, including AMQP, HTTP, HTTPS, STOMP, XMPP and SMTP
• Requires very little memory, enabling messaging to be embedded at any point in an application's architecture
• Enables a full range of messaging patterns, including point-to-point, point-and-shoot, work queues, publishsubscribe, routing, topics, multicast, remote procedure call (RPC), and more
• Has a straightforward design that enables easy adoption by developers across many teams, with clients and adaptors available for Java, C#, C, C++, Python, Ruby, PHP, Perl and more

Key Features:

Complete and Extensible Messaging

VMware vFabric RabbitMQ is the leading implementation of Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP), an openstandard messaging protocol created as an alternative to costly, proprietary commercial messaging technologies. Through protocol adaptors, RabbitMQ also supports a full range of Internet protocols for lightweight in-browser messaging—including Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP), Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), Streaming Text Oriented Messaging Protocol (STOMP), HTTP, and HTTPS. To meet the needs of many use cases and application environments, VMware vFabric RabbitMQ is fully extensible via a plug-in mechanism. RabbitMQ supports the messaging patterns that today's users demand: point-to-point, point-and-shoot, work queues, publish-subscribe, routing, topics, multicast, remote procedure call (RPC) and more. All are available as durable or nondurable message types.

Robust at Cloud Scale

Messaging is critical to next-generation cloud-based applications built to take advantage of pools of shared infrastructure. Messaging allows data to be routed among widely distributed applications independently of their physical location and operational availability. RabbitMQ is designed to scale and operate in such environments, making it the de facto standard for cloud messaging. It is used by private clouds such as NASA's Nebula and public clouds such as Heroku. RabbitMQ intelligently uses a combination of memory and disk to provide an optimal combination of throughput and scalability.

Portable and Interoperable

VMware vFabric RabbitMQ is based on a proven platform and open-standard protocols, freeing users from dependence on proprietary vendor-supplied libraries. Its wide protocol and platform support make RabbitMQ unique, offering customers choice and driving down integration costs over time.

Like traditional messaging middleware and enterprise service bus (ESB) software based on Java Message Service (JMS), RabbitMQ can connect Java applications and components. But unlike JMS-based messaging, RabbitMQ can also connect applications and components built using completely different technologies—such as an application written in Java to one written in .NET's C# language; a Python application to Amazon Web Services (AWS); or a Ruby application to a Representational State Transfer (REST) Web service.

All major operating systems support RabbitMQ, and more than 200 client interfaces are available for Java, C#, Python, Ruby, PHP, Perl, and other languages. The breadth of the RabbitMQ universe offers customers and developers a consistent approach to messaging across multiple stacks and platforms.

VMware vFabric RabbitMQ Key Attributes

• Highly reliable and robust at cloud scale
• Supports a broad range of operating systems and languages
• Based 100 percent on open-standard protocols
• Extensible and portable
• Includes built-in management and monitoring capabilities
• Includes security and access control
• Commercially supported by VMware

How To Buy:

vFabric RabbitMQ can be purchased as part of vFabric Advanced. Learn more about pricing for vFabric Cloud Application Platform. Learn more about pricing for vFabric Cloud Application Platform.

VMware vFabric RabbitMQ can be purchased in two ways:

• As part of vFabric Advanced Cloud Application Platform. Because vFabric Advanced is sold on a per-VM basis, we recommend this option for customers who plan to run RabbitMQ on vSphere products such as ESXi or ESX. Learn more about pricing for vFabric Advanced.

• As a standalone vFabric RabbitMQ license, without any other components in vFabric Advanced. Because this option is priced per physical CPU, we recommend it for customers who plan to run RabbitMQ on physical infrastructure, and not on vSphere.

For customers who plan to run RabbitMQ on physical infrastructure, standalone vFabric RabbitMQ is available as a one-time license under which service and support (SnS) contracts can be renewed annually.

Standalone vFabric RabbitMQ is priced per RabbitMQ server. There is no charge per RabbitMQ client or AMQP client. vFabric RabbitMQ licensing entitles you to connect an unlimited number of RabbitMQ and AMQP clients to any vFabric RabbitMQ server. For example, if you deployed five vFabric RabbitMQ servers, each of which was accessed by 100 RabbitMQ clients, you would only need to pay for license five vFabric RabbitMQ servers, and not for the 100 RabbitMQ clients.

Standalone vFabric RabbitMQ is priced is per physical CPU that each RabbitMQ server runs on, with up to 6 cores per CPU. Each additional six cores require an additional vFabric RabbitMQ license. For instance, a 12 core CPU requires two vFabric RabbitMQ licenses.

Support:

VMware Production Support & Subscription

Technical Support, 24 Hour Sev 1 Support -- 7 days a week.

Focused, 24-Hour Support For Production Environments

• Global, 24x7 support for Severity 1 issues
• Fast response times for critical issues
• Unlimited number of support requests
• Remote Support
• Online access to documentation and technical resources, knowledge base, discussion forums
• Product updates and upgrades

Overview

VMware Production Support is designed with your production environments in mind. Our global support centers are staffed around the clock to provide you access to our industry-leading expertise in virtualization and years of experience supporting virtual infrastructure products in real-world customer environments. We are committed to delivering enterprise-class, worldwide support with a single objective in mind: your success.

VMware Basic Support & Subscription Service

Technical Support, 12 Hours/Day, per published Business Hours, Mon. thru Fri.

Weekday Support for Test, Dev and Non-Critical Deployments

• Global, 12x5 access to support
• Unlimited number of support requests
• Remote Support
• Online access to documentation and technical resources, knowledge base, discussion forums
• Product updates and upgrades

Overview

VMware Basic Support is designed for non-critical applications and platforms that require support during normal business hours. Our global support centers have been strategically placed to provide you with fast and efficient access to the support center in your region. Each center is staffed with engineers that can provide industry-leading expertise in virtualization and years of experience supporting virtual infrastructure products in real-world customer environments. We are committed to delivering enterprise-class, worldwide support with a single objective in mind: your success.

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Documentation:

Download the VMware vFabric RabbitMQ Datasheet (PDF).