DMTF Launches VMAN Initiative and Open Virtualization Format (OVF) Standard

Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), the organization that facilitates

IT industry to collaborate on systems management standards development,

announced the Virtualization Management Initiative (VMAN). The VMAN Initiative

delivers broadly supported interoperability and portability standards to virtual

computing environments. IT managers can deploy pre-installed, pre-configured

solutions across heterogeneous computing networks and manage those applications

through their entire lifecycle. Alongside, the Open Virtualization Format (OVF)

standard has also been released. OVF simplifies interoperability, security and

virtual machine lifecycle management by describing an open, secure, portable and

extensible format for the packaging and distribution of one or more virtual

appliances. This enables software developers to ship pre-configured,

ready-to-deploy standard solutions, allowing end-users to distribute

applications into their environments with minimal effort. DMTF standards are

free and open to the industry.