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CLOUD Cloud Management Initiative

Cloud Management Standards

Working to Address Management Interoperability for Cloud Systems

Technologies like cloud computing and virtualization are rapidly being adopted by enterprise IT managers to better deliver services to their customers, lower IT costs and improve operational efficiencies.

DMTF's Cloud Management Initiative is focused on developing interoperable cloud infrastructure management standards and promoting adoption of those standards in the industry. The work of DMTF working groups promoted by the Cloud Management Initiative is focused on achieving interoperable cloud infrastructure management between cloud service providers and their consumers and developers.

Cloud Working Groups

DMTF’s Cloud Management Initiative is promoting the work of the Cloud Management Work Group, the Cloud Auditing Data Federation Working Group, the System Virtualization, Partitioning, Clustering Working Group and the Software Entitlement Working Group. Click on the links below to see an overview of each work group’s activities, work group charter, specifications, work-in-progress specifications and other technical documents.

Additional Resources

Learning Center: Visit the DMTF Learning Center for a complete list of overview documents, tutorials and related information.

Virtualization Management (VMAN)
DMTF's Virtualization Management (VMAN) standards unleash the power of virtualization by delivering broadly supported interoperability and portability standards to virtual computing environments through the Open Virtualization Format (OVF)

Cloud Standards Wiki
The Cloud Standards Wiki is a resource documenting the activities of the various Standards Development Organizations (SDOs) working on cloud standards.

DMTF Cloud Alliance Partners

DMTF’s Cloud Management Initiative works in collaboration with a number of industry organizations to develop solid partnerships that help unify management initiatives. These organizations include:

DMTF Specifications

DSP # Version Title Date Comments
DSP0264 1.0.0 CIMI-CIM Specification 3 Jan 2013 .pdf file. DMTF Standard
DSP0263 1.0.1 Cloud Infrastructure Management Interface (CIMI) Model and REST Interface over HTTP Specification 30 Oct 2012

.pdf file. DMTF Standard

DSP0263 1.0.0 Cloud Infrastructure Management Interface (CIMI) Model and REST Interface over HTTP 29 Aug 2012

.pdf file. DMTF Standard

DSP0243 2.0.1 Open Virtualization Format Specification 30 Aug 2013 .pdf file. DMTF Standard
DSP0243 2.0.0 Open Virtualization Format Specification 3 Jan 2013

.pdf file. DMTF Standard

DSP0243 1.1.1 Open Virtualization Format Specification 30 Aug 2013 .pdf file. DMTF Standard
DSP0243 1.0.0 Open Virtualization Format Specification 22 Feb 2009

.pdf file, DMTF Standard

XML Schemas

DSP # Version Title Date Comments
DSP8049 1.0.1 Network Port Profile XML Schema 3 Jan 2013

.xsd file. DMTF Standard

DSP8023 2.0.1 OVF Envelope XSD 25 Aug 2013 .xsd file. DMTF Standard
DSP8023 2.0.0 OVF Envelope 3 Jan 2013

.xsd file. DMTF Standard

DSP8023 1.1.1 OVF Envelope XSD 25 Aug 2013 .xsd file. DMTF Standard
DSP8009 1.0.1 CIMI XML Schema 30 Oct 2012

.xsd file. DMTF Standard

DSP8009 1.0.0 CIMI XML Schema 29 Aug 2012

.xsd file. DMTF Standard

White Papers and Technical Notes

DSP # Version Title Date Comments
DSP2027 1.0.1 Cloud Infrastructure Management Interface (CIMI) Primer 30 Oct 2012 .pdf file. DMTF Informational
DSP2027 1.0.0 Cloud Infrastructure Management Interface (CIMI) Primer 29 Aug 2012

.pdf file. DMTF Informational

DSP-IS0103 1.0.0 Use Cases and Interactions for Managing Clouds 18 Jun 2010

.pdf file, DMTF Informational

DSP-IS0102 1.0.0 Architecture for Managing Clouds 18 Jun 2010

.pdf file, DMTF Informational

DSP-IS0101 1.0.0 Interoperable Clouds 11 Nov 2009 .pdf file, DMTF Informational

Expired Work in Progress Documents

DSP # Version Title Date Comments Expiration Date
DSP2017 2.0.0a Open Virtualization Format White Paper 22 Jul 2013

.pdf file. DMTF Work-In-Progress, expiring 2013-12-31

31 Dec 2013
DSP0263 1.1.0a Cloud Infrastructure Management Interface (CIMI) Model and RESTful HTTP-based Protocol 13 Aug 2013

.pdf file. DMTF Work-In-Progress, expiring: 2014-01-22

22 Jan 2014
DSP0243 2.1.0c Open Virtualization Format Specification 20 Jul 2013

.pdf file. DMTF Work-In-Progress, expiring 2013-12-31

31 Dec 2013
DSP0243 2.0.0d Open Virtualization Format Specification 26 Sep 2012

.pdf file. DMTF Work-In-Progress, expired: December 15, 2012

15 Dec 2012