CLOUD

DMTF Cloud Management Standards

Working to Address Management Interoperability for Cloud Systems

(Having finished its work, the Cloud Management Initiative is currently quiesced. If you are interested in expanding Cloud Management Initiative and contribute to the creation of additional DMTF Cloud Management standards, please contact us.)

Technologies like cloud computing and virtualization have been embraced by enterprise IT managers seeking to better deliver services to their customers, lower IT costs and improve operational efficiencies.

DMTF has multiple standards and working groups addressing cloud management, and the Cloud Management Initiative brings this work together for an integrated approach. Focused on achieving interoperable cloud infrastructure management between cloud service providers and their consumers and developers, the Cloud Management Initiative also promotes adoption of these standards by the industry.

The Cloud Management Initiative produced standards and whitepapers in the following areas:

Cloud Infrastructure Management Interface (CIMI) - describes the model and protocol for management interactions between a cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provider and the consumers of an IaaS service. The basic resources of IaaS (machines, storage, and networks) are modeled to provide consumer management access to an implementation of IaaS and facilitate portability between cloud implementations that support the specification.
Open Virtualization Format (OVF) – a portable metadata format for the distribution of virtual systems onto and between virtualization platforms. OVF provides the industry with a standard packaging format for software solutions based on virtual systems. OVF has been adopted and published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) as ISO 17203.
Cloud Audit Data Federation (CADF) Data Format and Interface Definitions - a standard which specifies audit events which span cloud and service providers, and make these audit events comprehensible, consistent, shareable, and merge-able. The standard specifies an event model with data needed to certify, self-manage and self-audit application security in cloud environments.
Software Identification and Entitlement Usage Metrics Whitepaper– a document which describes information useful in identifying licensed software products, and to trace and gather the use of the software and other entitlement usage metrics across the span of deployments. A SoftwareID CIM profile was also created which utilized these concepts.

Alliance Partners

The initiative worked in collaboration with a number of industry organizations to develop solid partnerships that help unify management initiatives. These organizations are shown in the Alliance Partner website.

Get Involved

DMTF welcomes feedback on our standards, but requires that individuals submitting comments first agree to our DMTF Feedback Policy.

DMTF Specifications

DSP #	Version	Title	Date	Comments	Versions
DSP0264	1.0.0	CIMI-CIM Specification	14 Dec 2012	Standard	View
DSP0263	2.0.0	Cloud Infrastructure Management Interface (CIMI) Model and RESTful HTTP-based Protocol	17 Jul 2016	Standard	View
DSP0262	1.0.0	Cloud Auditing Data Federation (CADF) - Data Format and Interface Definitions Specification	19 Jun 2014	Standard	View
DSP0243	2.1.1	Open Virtualization Format Specification	27 Aug 2015	Standard	View

White Papers, Example Files, Technical Notes

DSP #	Version	Title	Date	Comments	Versions
DSP2042	1.0.0	Cloud Infrastructure Management Interface (CIMI) Use Cases	26 Feb 2015	Informational	View
DSP2038	1.0.0	Cloud Audit Data Federation - OpenStack Profile (CADF-OpenStack)	16 Sep 2014	Informational	View
DSP2027	2.0.0	Cloud Infrastructure Management Interface (CIMI) Primer	04 Aug 2016	Informational	View
DSP2017	2.0.0	Open Virtualization Format White Paper	24 Apr 2014	Informational	View
DSP-IS0103	1.0.0	Use Cases and Interactions for Managing Clouds	18 Jun 2010	Informational	View
DSP-IS0102	1.0.0	Architecture for Managing Clouds	18 Jun 2010	Informational	View
DSP-IS0101	1.0.0	Interoperable Clouds	11 Nov 2009	Informational	View

Schemas

DSP #	Version	Title	Date	Comments	Versions
DSP8049	1.0.1	Network Port Profile XML Schema	03 Jan 2013	Standard	View
DSP8023	2.0.1	OVF Envelope XSD	25 Aug 2013	Standard	View
DSP8009	1.0.2	CIMI XML Schema	24 Feb 2014	Standard	View

Historical Documents

DSP #	Version	Title	Date	Comments	Versions
DSP8009	1.1.0a	CIMI XML Schema	17 Feb 2014	Historical	View
DSP2041	1.0.0a	Cloud Infrastructure Management Interface (CIMI) Extensions	02 Mar 2015	Historical	View
DSP2028	1.0.0a	Cloud Auditing Data Federation (CADF) Use Case White Paper	27 Jun 2012	Historical	View

Open Source Projects using DMTF CLOUD Technologies

DMTF technologies are leveraged in numerous third-party open source projects. If you are aware of any additional projects using DMTF technologies that are not included below, please contact us so we can add them to the list.

Open Source Project	Description of Tool
Common OVF Tool	COT (the Common OVF Tool) is a tool for editing Open Virtualization Format (.ovf,.ova) virtual appliances
OpenStack Ceilometer	The Ceilometer project is a data collection service that provides the ability to normalize and transform data across all current OpenStack core components with work underway to support future OpenStack components.
OpenStack Keystone	Keystone provides notifications about usage data so that 3rd party applications can use the data for billing, monitoring, or quota purposes. This document describes the current inclusions and exclusions for Keystone notifications.
OpenStack Monasca	Monasca is a open-source multi-tenant, highly scalable, performant, fault-tolerant monitoring-as-a-service solution that integrates with OpenStack. It uses a REST API for high-speed metrics processing and querying and has a streaming alarm engine and notification engine.
Sirocco CIMI API Server	This Web module implements all the REST machinery of the DMTF CIMI API and interacts with the business tier of Sirocco through an internal EJB business api.