DMTF’s Virtualization Management (VMAN) standard is a set of specifications that address the management lifecycle of a virtual environment. VMAN has been adopted and published by the American National Standard Institute (ANSI) International Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS) as INCITS 483-2012.
VMAN’s Open Virtualization Format (OVF) specification provides a standard format for packaging and describing virtual machines and applications for deployment across heterogeneous virtualization platforms, while VMAN’s profiles standardize many aspects of the operational management of a heterogeneous virtualized environment.
DMTF has developed a set of standards for the management of virtual networking components (below). These include extensions to DMTF’s Common Information Model (CIM) for virtual networking, the Network Port Profile XML Schema, extensions to DMTF’s Open Virtualization Format (OVF) for the incorporation of Network Port Profiles, and more.
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