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DMTF Standards for Virtualization Management

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.

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VMAN News and Announcements

  • NEW!! VMAN Subcommittee to host a panel at LISA 2008!
  • VMAN Subcommittee to showcase OVF demos at VMworld!
  • DMTF Launches Virtualization Management (VMAN) Initiative and announced the release of the OVF standard. Read the press release or the social media release.

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"Standards-based management is
a key building block of the dynamic
data center," said Chris Wolf, a
senior analyst with Burton Group.
"Rapid vendor uptake of DMTF's
VMAN OVF standard since Fall 2007
provides clear evidence that the
vendor community is serious about
simplifying virtual machine
deployment."

- Chris Wolf, Burton Group

VMAN Support in the Industry

Member Demonstrations of OVF technology
Member Company Endorsements