This topic lists the topics in this documentation set that discuss recommended usage and limitations when using VMware Tanzu GemFire on Cloud Foundry.

• See Design Patterns for descriptions of the variety of design patterns that Tanzu GemFire on Cloud Foundry supports.
• Tanzu GemFire on Cloud Foundry 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.
• Tanzu GemFire on Cloud Foundry does not support scaling down the cluster.
• Tanzu GemFire on Cloud Foundry does not support plan migrations. The -p option to the cf update-service command is not supported.
• Tanzu GemFire on Cloud Foundry 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 Platform on Cloud Foundry applications are stateless, do not use the Tanzu GemFire durable client feature.