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OVF and cloud portability
A persistent promise of the OVFstandard has been portability of virtual system images between the various hypervisors and their associated management tools. Up to now, this has been a relatively minor concern in the market because most "cloud computing" ventures seem to leverage a single vendor for the underlying infrastructure. This has held true for projects in the enterprise data center and for the pure ...
OVF – The Road Left to Travel
The Open Virtualization Format (OVF) standard has been under development at the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) for several years. The primary goal has been to define an "open, secure, portable, efficient and extensible format for the packaging and distribution of software to be run in virtual machines." In short, OVF provides a standard way to store VM's and associated meta-data outside the context of ...