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December 03, 2007
DMTF Creates Open Standard for Virtualization Management
PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 27 -- The Distributed Management Task Force Inc. (DMTF), the industry organization leading the development, adoption and promotion of interoperable management standards and initiatives, today announced the release of a new standard for managing virtualized environments. Five preliminary profiles, all based on DMTF’s Common Information Model, are now publicly available and are ready for implementation. Driven by the efforts of DMTF’s System Virtualization, Partitioning and Clustering (SVPC) work group, the organization is turning standardized virtualization management into reality.
Virtualization has changed the industry landscape since its introduction. Even with the efficiencies virtualization offers, this new approach has added system management complexity and hence IT cost. With this new standard, DMTF reduces the complexity and cost. Also, because DMTF builds on standards already in place for server hardware, the method for managing virtual machines is complementary. This lowers the IT learning curve, and also lowers complexity for vendors implementing this support in their management solutions.
With the first set of virtualization management profiles now available, a number of DMTF member companies and Alliance Partners have already begun implementation. The next step for the SVPC work group is to begin efforts to foster interoperability. Next week, on Dec. 3, the work group will host its first-ever members-only plugfest in Santa Clara, Calif., to test interoperability of products based on the SVPC specifications.
“With the ever-increasing adoption of virtualization, DMTF aims to simplify and provide ease-of-use for the virtual environment by creating an industry standard for system virtualization management,” said Winston Bumpus, DMTF president. “Our role also extends to ensure the success of this standard, so we are thrilled to host the first-ever SVPC plugfest to test early implementations for interoperability."
The new standard also recognizes supported virtualization management capabilities, including the ability to:
- discover inventory virtual computer systems.
- manage lifecycle of virtual computer systems.
- create/modify/delete virtual resources.
- monitor virtual systems for health and performance.
Five preliminary profiles are publicly available here:
- DSP1042, System Virtualization Profile.
- DSP1057, Virtual System Profile.
- DSP1059, Generic Device Resource Virtualization Profile.
- DSP1041, Resource Allocation Profile.
- DSP1043, Allocation Capabilities Profile.
To view the SVPC white paper on the CIM system virtualization model, visit www.dmtf.org/standards/published_documents/DSP2013_1.0.0.pdf.
About DMTF
With more than 4,000 active participants representing 44 countries and nearly 200 organizations, the Distributed Management Task Force Inc. (DMTF) is the industry organization leading the development, adoption and promotion of interoperable management standards and initiatives. During the last 15 years of its history, DMTF management technologies have become critical to enabling management interoperability among multi-vendor systems, tools, and solutions within the enterprise. By deploying solutions that support DMTF standards, IT managers can choose to deploy a mix of systems and solutions that best meet their users’ needs, while reducing management complexity and total cost of ownership. Information about the DMTF technologies and activities can be found at www.dmtf.org.
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Source: DMTF
