DMTF announced their Cloud Incubator standards group and Sun is among the companies on the leadership board. This work will complement and be coordinated with the work already going on in the Open Grid Forum and SNIA.
In the cloud computing space, the key technology driving the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offerings (including Sun's) is system virtualization. DMTF has been working on system virtualization standards such as the Open Virtualization Format (OVF) specification and the System Virtualization Profile, which focuses on virtualization aspects related to host systems and their resources, such as modeling the relationships between host resources and virtual re-sources. Further it addresses virtualization-specific tasks such as the creation or modification of virtual systems and their configurations.
The DMTF has actually developed multiple profiles related to virtualization and leveraged others that had previously been developed. In addition to the technical work, DMTF has an initiative to promote their virtualization standards called VMAN.
Quoting from the VMAN website: "The Virtualization Management Initiative (VMAN) from DMTF unleashes the power of virtualization by delivering broadly supported interoperability and portability standards to virtual computing environments. VMAN provides IT managers the freedom to deploy pre-installed, pre-configured solutions across heterogeneous computing networks and to manage those applications through their entire lifecycle. Management software vendors will offer a broad selection of tools that support the industry standard specifications that are a part of VMAN, thus lowering support and training costs for IT managers.
Thanks to the Open Virtualization Format (OVF) standard within VMAN, ISVs can create a single pre-packaged virtual appliance that can run on customers' virtualization platforms of choice. Tools based on the VMAN Profiles enable consistent management and monitoring of these virtual applications across the virtualized platform. These technologies will allow ISVs and platform vendors to focus their development resources on higher value features of their products instead of needing to create different versions of products for each environment."
Sun just announced that it's VirtualBox x86 virtualization product supports the OVF standard.
So as virtualization technology becomes ubiquitous, being deployed on desktops, enterprise data centers and now public clouds, the need for standards becomes even more important. DMTF’s Open Cloud Standards Incubator will focus on addressing these issues by developing cloud resource management protocols, packaging formats and security mechanisms to facilitate interoperability. You can read the charter of the group to learn more.
In the cloud computing space, the key technology driving the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offerings (including Sun's) is system virtualization. DMTF has been working on system virtualization standards such as the Open Virtualization Format (OVF) specification and the System Virtualization Profile, which focuses on virtualization aspects related to host systems and their resources, such as modeling the relationships between host resources and virtual re-sources. Further it addresses virtualization-specific tasks such as the creation or modification of virtual systems and their configurations.
The DMTF has actually developed multiple profiles related to virtualization and leveraged others that had previously been developed. In addition to the technical work, DMTF has an initiative to promote their virtualization standards called VMAN.
Quoting from the VMAN website: "The Virtualization Management Initiative (VMAN) from DMTF unleashes the power of virtualization by delivering broadly supported interoperability and portability standards to virtual computing environments. VMAN provides IT managers the freedom to deploy pre-installed, pre-configured solutions across heterogeneous computing networks and to manage those applications through their entire lifecycle. Management software vendors will offer a broad selection of tools that support the industry standard specifications that are a part of VMAN, thus lowering support and training costs for IT managers.
Thanks to the Open Virtualization Format (OVF) standard within VMAN, ISVs can create a single pre-packaged virtual appliance that can run on customers' virtualization platforms of choice. Tools based on the VMAN Profiles enable consistent management and monitoring of these virtual applications across the virtualized platform. These technologies will allow ISVs and platform vendors to focus their development resources on higher value features of their products instead of needing to create different versions of products for each environment."
Sun just announced that it's VirtualBox x86 virtualization product supports the OVF standard.
So as virtualization technology becomes ubiquitous, being deployed on desktops, enterprise data centers and now public clouds, the need for standards becomes even more important. DMTF’s Open Cloud Standards Incubator will focus on addressing these issues by developing cloud resource management protocols, packaging formats and security mechanisms to facilitate interoperability. You can read the charter of the group to learn more.
