DMTF Learning Center
The DMTF is committed to providing the educational materials necessary to enable the proper implementation of DMTF standards and technologies. These include MOF education and more. If there are additional areas you would like to see addressed by DMTF educational materials, please let us know using our online comment form.
Recent Additions
- CDM Technical Overview [Download / Watch]
- Tutorial presented by Kevin Kuelbs
- Overview of the DASH Standard [Download / Watch]
- Tutorial presented by Jeff Hilland
- Overview of the SMASH Standard [Download / Watch]
- Tutorial presented by Jeff Hilland
- Managing User Accounts [Download / Watch]
- Tutorial presented by Aaron Merkin
- Metrics Overview [Download / Watch]
- Tutorial presented by Aaron Merkin
- VMAN Standard Overview [Download / Watch]
- Tutorial presented by Winston Bumpus
DMTF Technical Notes
DMTF Tech Notes deliver high-level overviews on topics of interest:
- DMTF Standards for
Virtualization Management (VMAN) Technical Note (September
2008)
- Open Virtualization Format
(OVF) Technical Note (September 2008)
- Driving DASH
and SMASH Conformance, Quality and Customer Satisfaction (December
2007)
- SMASH Simplifies
Cross-Platform Server Management (September 2007)
- DASH Delivers Multi-Vendor Management for Desktop and Mobile Systems (March 2007)
- The Growing Importance of Management Standards (95k PDF)
- DMTF Standards Technical Note (29k PDF)
- Why CIM? (32k PDF)
- ASF Technical Note (36k PDF)
- CIM Technical Note (112k PDF)
- DEN Mapping Technical Note (26k PDF)
- SMBIOS Technical Note (163k
PDF)
White Papers
Be sure to view the latest DMTF White Papers, available on the DMTF Web site. These White Papers address the technical specifics of using the CIM schemas.
Presentations
- SLA
Management in Next Generation Networks: DMTF and TMF Join Forces to Address
the Challenge (PDF)
Presented at the TeleManagement Forum's Management World Americas 2007 by Alex Zhdankin, co-chair of the DMTF Telco Work Group and official DMTF representative in the ITU-T Next Generation Network Management Focus Group. The TM Forum works with DMTF to enable Service Assurance and monitoring to be performed transparently across transport and enterprise resources in the context of NGN. -
Building Manageable Products Through Industry Standards (PDF)
Presented at the 2007 Server Blade Summit, this presentation provides a basic introduction into the Database Management Task Force. It features DMTF SMASH and Virtualization technologies and offers a management scenario to illustrate their use. - Advantages of Standards-Based Management for Data Center Optimization (PDF)
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DMTF president Winston Bumpus makes the case for "Why standards?" in this
PowerPoint presentation given at the 2007 Next Generation Data Center
conference.