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DMTF releases OVF 1.0 (maybe)
Posted by Alessandro Perilli
| Monday, October 06, 2008
| 1 Comments
After a process lasted more than one year, last month the DMTF finally ratified the Open Virtualization Format (OVF).
Despite the announcement, the 1.0 document of specifications available here doesn’t seem to be definitive (document status: Preliminary Standard).
Definitive or not, a lot of companies are already supporting the standard:
- VMware (which supports it since Infrastructure 3.0 and even released a free authoring tool called Studio)
- Citrix (which will support it next year)
- IBM (which is maintaining open source authoring tools)
- Microsoft (even if there’s no official statement at the moment)
- Enomaly (supporting it since the earliest draft)
- ManageIQ (which supported it in its new EVM Suite 2.0)
- Fortisphere (which just announced the upcoming support)
All other virtualization vendors offering cross-platform management tools are expected to support it in the coming months. Hopefully the format of our virtual machines will be a problem that we don’t have to care of anymore.
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Kes Wold
Wednesday, October 08, 2008 7:57:00 PM
FYI -
To ensure interoperability of DMTF technologies, DMTF standards go
through a four-phase process. As a proposed standard evolves, its
status will change from Work-in-Progress, to Draft Standard, to
Preliminary Standard, and lastly Final Standard. During the first two
phases, a standard is in draft format and is available to the DMTF
membership. After a Draft Standard is approved by the DMTF Board in accordance with the Committee Voting Process, it becomes a Preliminary Standard. During this phase, the Preliminary Standard is released to the public, and companies are encouraged to implement the standard. At this time, implementation feedback may generate change requests against the Preliminary Standard; after all change requests are resolved, the standard becomes a Final Standard. After a standard becomes Final, it will serve as the base specification for any future additional revisions to the release.
To ensure interoperability of DMTF technologies, DMTF standards go
through a four-phase process. As a proposed standard evolves, its
status will change from Work-in-Progress, to Draft Standard, to
Preliminary Standard, and lastly Final Standard. During the first two
phases, a standard is in draft format and is available to the DMTF
membership. After a Draft Standard is approved by the DMTF Board in accordance with the Committee Voting Process, it becomes a Preliminary Standard. During this phase, the Preliminary Standard is released to the public, and companies are encouraged to implement the standard. At this time, implementation feedback may generate change requests against the Preliminary Standard; after all change requests are resolved, the standard becomes a Final Standard. After a standard becomes Final, it will serve as the base specification for any future additional revisions to the release.
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