Management Matters this month:

FEATURES

• Message from the President: The VMAN Initiative takes Vegas by storm
• DMTF Preliminary and Final Specifications
• Blade Systems Alliance and DMTF Collaborate
• DMTF Makes its Mark at VMworld 2008

EVENTS

• ManageFusion 08 Orlando – More of what you're looking for
• SVM 2008 in Munich, Germany: Bringing the World’s Technology Together
• LISA ’08: The 22nd Large Installation System Administration Conference
• DMTF CDM Forum and SM Forum to showcase CDM, DASH and SMASH Implementations – Come Meet the Experts at MDC 2008

REGULARS

• 2008 Survey Results: Do customers request support of any of the following DMTF standards in their company’s products?
• Call for Contributors
• Member Feedback Welcomed

FEATURES

Message from the President: The VMAN Initiative takes Vegas by storm

By Winston Bumpus

Last month’s launch of the Virtualization Management (VMAN) Initiative was a resounding success! The exhibit hall at VMworld was buzzing with the release of our VMAN OVF 1.0 standard and reporters sharing the news with the rest of the world. If you didn’t hear it, you probably saw it, with one of the VMAN giveaways in the hands of press, analysts or member companies. VMAN also appeared in a number of member company’s booths. DMTF’s VMAN certainly left its mark in Las Vegas.

If you missed the excitement on launch day, I’d like to introduce you to VMAN. The VMAN Initiative is the latest suite of specifications to join our four existing management initiatives (CDM, DASH, SMASH and SMI-S).

Within the VMAN Initiative, there are a number of important profiles and specifications, including the Open Virtualization Format (OVF) standard. In addition to the work already completed by the System Virtualization, Particitioning and Clustering (SVPC) working group, the team continues to move ahead. The SVPC working group looks to provide improved management interoperability within virtual computing environments. We look forward to more specifications under development, along with new interoperability programs to support them.

The widespread industry acceptance for the VMAN Initiative and the OVF standard shows our collective success in the effort to enable a global IT management ecosystem. Let me take this opportunity to thank you for your support of our mission; the work done by our member companies in support of DMTF standards is critical to enabling management interoperability among multi-vendor systems, tools and solutions within the enterprise. Thank you for making this another DMTF success!

As always, please contact me with any comments or questions.

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