Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) is a 501(c)(6) nonprofit industry standards organization that creates open manageability standards spanning diverse emerging and traditional IT infrastructures including cloud, virtualization, network, servers and storage. Member companies and alliance partners collaborate on standards to improve interoperable management of information technologies.
Based in Portland, Oregon, the DMTF is led by a board of directors representing technology companies including: Broadcom Inc., Cisco, Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Intel Corporation, Lenovo,
Positivo Tecnologia S.A., and Verizon.
History
Founded in 1992 as the Desktop Management Task Force, the organization's first standard was the now-legacy Desktop Management Interface (DMI). As the organization evolved to address distributed management through additional standards, such as the Common Information Model (CIM), it changed its name to the Distributed Management Task Force in 1999, but is now known as, DMTF.
The DMTF continues to address converged, hybrid IT and the Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) with its latest specifications, such as the Redfish standard, SMBIOS, SPDM, and PMCI standards.
Standards
DMTF standards include:
* CADF - Cloud Auditing Data Federation
* CIMI - Cloud Infrastructure Management Interface
* CIM - Common Information Model
* CMDBf -
Configuration Management Database
A configuration management database (CMDB) is an ITIL term for a database used by an organization to store information about hardware and software assets (commonly referred to as configuration items). It is useful to break down configuration ite ...
Federation
* DASH - Desktop and Mobile Architecture for System Hardware
* MCTP - Management Component Transport Protocol Including NVMe-MI, I2C/SMBus and PCIe Bindings
* NC-SI - Network Controller Sideband Interface
* OVF - Open Virtualization Format
* PLDM - Platform Level Data Model Including Firmware Update, Redfish Device Enablement (RDE)
* Redfish – Including Protocols, Schema, Host Interface, Profiles
* SMASH -
Systems Management Architecture for Server Hardware
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System Management BIOS
In computing, the System Management BIOS (SMBIOS) specification defines data structures (and access methods) that can be used to read management information produced by the BIOS of a computer. This eliminates the need for the operating system to ...
(SMBIOS) – Standardized Host Management Information
* SPDM - Security Protocol and Data Model
See also
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Cloud Infrastructure Management Interface
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Common Information Model (computing)
The Common Information Model (CIM) is an open standard that defines how managed elements in an Information technology, IT environment are represented as a common set of Object (computer science), objects and relationships between them.
The Dist ...
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Desktop and mobile Architecture for System Hardware
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Management Component Transport Protocol
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NC-SI
NC-SI, abbreviated from network controller sideband interface, is an electrical interface and protocol defined by the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF). The NC-SI enables the connection of a baseboard management controller (BMC) to one or ...
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Open Virtualization Format
Open Virtualization Format (OVF) is an open standard for packaging and distributing virtual appliances or, more generally, software to be run in virtual machines.
The standard describes an "open, secure, portable, efficient and extensible format ...
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Redfish (specification)
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Systems Management Architecture for Server Hardware
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SMBIOS
References
General
*https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/05/dmtf_signs_off_redfish_server_management_spec_v_10/
*https://digitalisationworld.com/news/49120/dmtf-announces-redfish-api-advancements
*https://searchstorage.techtarget.com/tip/Choose-the-right-storage-management-interface-for-you
External links
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Working groups
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