The GemFire
VMware vFabric® GemFire® is an in-memory, low-latency data grid, running in the same JVM as the Controller and Analytics, that scales as needed when nodes are added to the cluster. It allows the caching, processing, and retrieval of metrics, and is functionally dependent on the GemFire Locator.
Remote collector nodes only communicate over GemFire using ports 10000-10010.