DMTF Newsletter 2008

Management Matters, June 2008	Page 4

Four Final Standards Now Available - continued

Power Supply Profile

Also released this month was version 1.0.0 of the Power Supply Profile (DSP1015), which was prepared by the SMWG. DSP1015 extends the management capabilities of referencing profiles by adding the capability to represent power supplies for manageability and describe power supplies in a redundant figuration. The power supply as a logical device is modeled as referencing the power supply physical package for physical asset information and profile versioning for the schema implementation version information.

Record Log Profile

DMTF’s Record Log Profile (DSP1010 version 1.0.0) was also issued this month. Also prepared by the SMWG, DSP1010 is an autonomous profile that provides the management capabilities to represent logs of a managed system. The log is modeled as referencing the managed elements that populate the log, and the profile registration for the schema implementation version information.

Power State Management Profile

The Power State Management Profile version 1.0.0 (DSP1027) was also released this month. Prepared by the SMWG, DSP1027 describes the classes, associations, properties, and methods used to manage the power of a computer system.

Virtualization Management Initiative Subcommittee

The Marketing Committee is pleased to announce the initiation of the Virtualization Management Initiative Subcommittee, proposed by IBM, Novell, Sun, and VMware, and approved by the DMTF Board of Directors. Winston Bumpus of VMware and Venu Mannem of Sun will act as interim co-chairs responsible for executing the first set of deliverables required for work group formation. For more information or to join the Virtualization Management Initiative Subcommittee please visit http://www.dmtf.org/apps/org/workgroup/vman/.

Vendors have embraced the need to provide flexibility in the utilization of a single computer’s resources by virtualizing these resources for use across multiple virtual machine images on a single computer, or by partitioning the set of resources into subsets, each of which is assigned to an individual ‘logical’ machine. The Virtualization Management Initiative will be focused on addressing the messaging to management of such aggregations of systems and to manage them with the requisite security, reliability, availability, and extensibility. In addition, market positioning of the simplification of the total overall system management of such multiple machine images must be provided.

The DMTF Virtualization Management Initiative Subcommittee will be in charge of developing messaging and marketing collateral promoting the DMTF suite of specifications that deliver architectural semantics, industry standard protocols and profiles to unify the management of the virtualized data center.

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