Track - Virtualization

Virtualization Management Initiative Overview

Winston Bumpus, VMWare

This session will provide an overview of the DMTF Virtualization Initiative and schedule of events.  This presentation will include the high level architecture, implementation and protocol requirements.  This session will also list the profiles that will be part of the Virtualization initiative. 

Update on System Virtualization Resource Profiles

Michael Johanssen, IBM

Contribution will provide an update on System Virtualization Standards, as presently evolving in the DMTF SVPC working group, focussing on storage and network virtual resource allocation.

OVF Overview

Rene W. Schmidt, VM Ware

The rapid adoption of virtual infrastructure has highlighted the need for a standard, portable model for the distribution of virtual machines between virtualization platforms. Packaging an application together with the operating system on which it is certified, into a virtual machine that can be easily transferred through test and development and into production as a pre-configured, pre-packaged unit with no external dependencies, is extremely attractive. Such pre-deployed, ready-to-run applications packaged as virtual machines (VMs) are called virtual appliances. In order to make this concept practical on a large scale, it is important that the industry adopts a vendor-neutral standard.

This session will deal with the challenges of a portable format, identify key industry initiatives towards this goal, and discuss the relevance of the portable format for an enterprise.

Virtual Switch Profile

John Parchem, Microsoft

This presentation describes the virtual Ethernet switch CIM model in development in the DMTF System Virtualization, Partitioning and Clustering Work Group. The virtual Ethernet switch model modeled presented represents the virtualization host software based network switch currently available in today's server virtualization products. These switches are part of the virtualization system, allowing multiple virtual machines to utilize one host Ethernet port or to allow multiple virtual machines to connect to an internal network. The presentation describes the two profiles under development to define the model and their relationship to the current virtualization profiles.

CIM System Virtualization Model

Steve Hand, Symantec

This talk will provide an overview of the CIM System Virtualization model and supporting profiles being developed in the System Virtualization, Partitioning and Clustering workgroup in the DMTF. We will review the current system virtualization model including the resource allocation and resource capabilities models, system virtualization lifecycle, and virtual device modeling. We will give an overview of the contents of the draft standard System Virtualization and Virtual System profiles.

Virtualization Panel

Moderator: Larry Lamers, VM Ware

This panel will include the companies that are working on Virtualization implementations. Attendees will be able to ask questions to a specific member or to the group as a whole.