With VMworld 2008 upon us next month, the challenges virtualization presents IT managers is top of mind for many vendors and industry organizations. One group in particular, the Distributed Management Task Force, or DMTF, in September 2007 announced the acceptance of a draft specification that promised to simplify virtualization interoperability, security and management. According to a DMTF paper about the Open Virtualization Format Specification, the OVF “describes an open, secure, portable, efficient and extensible format for the packaging and distribution of software to be run in virtual machines (VM).”
A Look at the Open Virtualization Format Specification
August 28, 2008