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</nav> <main id="main-content"> <div class="boundary"> <div id="content" class="content-center"> <h1><span class="standard_term">OVF</span> Open Virtualization Format</h1> <div class="region region-content"> <div id="block-system-main" class="block block-system"> <div class="content"> <div id="node-681" class="node node-standard clearfix" about="/standards/ovf" typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document"> <span property="dc:title" content="OVF" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-name-field-description field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>DMTF’s Open Virtualization Format (OVF) standard provides the industry with a standard packaging format for software solutions based on virtual systems, solving critical business needs for software vendors and cloud computing service providers. OVF has been adopted and published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) as <a href="http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=59388">ISO 17203</a>.</p><p>The rapid adoption of virtual infrastructure has highlighted the need for a standard, portable metadata format for the distribution of virtual systems onto and between virtualization platforms. In the modern cloud computing era, OVF provides a platform independent, efficient, open and extensible packaging and distribution format that facilitates the mobility of virtual machines and gives customers platform independence.</p><p>An OVF package can be used:</p><ul><li>By an independent software vendor (ISV) to publish a software solution</li><li>By a data center operator to transport a software solution from one data center to another</li><li>By a customer to archive a software solution</li><li>In any other use case that can be met by having a standardized package for a software solution</li></ul><p>From the user's point of view, OVF is a packaging format for virtual appliances. Once installed, an OVF package adds to the user’s infrastructure a self-contained, self-consistent, software application that provides a particular service or services.</p><p>OVF takes advantage of DMTF’s <a href="http://dmtf.org/standards/cim">Common Information Model (CIM)</a>, where appropriate, to allow management software to clearly understand and easily map resource properties by using an open standard.</p><h3>Get Involved</h3><p>DMTF <a href="https://www.dmtf.org/standards/feedback">welcomes feedback</a> on our standards, but requires that individuals submitting comments first agree to our DMTF Feedback Policy.</p><p> </p></div></div></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="block-block-33" class="block block-block"> <div class="content"> <h3>DMTF Specifications</h3><div class="view view-documents view-id-documents view-display-id-specifications view-dom-id-d0f834f4d0f7a4bf04e53858e42ac5fe"> <div class="view-content"> <table class="views-table cols-6 table" id="views-aggregator-datatable"> <thead> <tr> <th class="views-field views-field-field-dsp"> DSP # </th> <th class="views-field views-field-field-version"> Version </th> <th class="views-field views-field-title"> Title </th> <th class="views-field views-field-field-pubdate"> Date </th> <th class="views-field views-field-field-comments"> Comments </th> <th class="views-field views-field-nothing"> Versions </th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr class="odd views-row-first"> <td class="views-field views-field-field-dsp" > <a href="https://www.dmtf.org/sites/default/files/standards/documents/DSP0265_1.0.0.pdf">DSP0265</a> </td> <td class="views-field views-field-field-version" > 1.0.0 </td> <td class="views-field views-field-title long-title" > Profile to Enable Automated Deployment of OVF Packages </td> <td class="views-field views-field-field-pubdate nowrap" > <span property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2013-06-27T07:00:00-07:00" class="date-display-single">27 Jun 2013</span> </td> <td class="views-field views-field-field-comments long-comment" > Standard </td> <td class="views-field views-field-nothing" > <a href="/dsp/DSP0265">View</a> </td> </tr> <tr class="even views-row-last"> <td class="views-field views-field-field-dsp" > <a href="https://www.dmtf.org/sites/default/files/standards/documents/DSP0243_2.1.1.pdf">DSP0243</a> </td> <td class="views-field views-field-field-version" > 2.1.1 </td> <td class="views-field views-field-title long-title" > Open Virtualization Format Specification </td> <td class="views-field views-field-field-pubdate nowrap" > <span property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2015-08-27T00:00:00-07:00" class="date-display-single">27 Aug 2015</span> </td> <td class="views-field views-field-field-comments long-comment" > Standard </td> <td class="views-field views-field-nothing" > <a href="/dsp/DSP0243">View</a> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </div><h3>White Papers and Technical Notes</h3><div class="view view-documents view-id-documents view-display-id-white_papers view-dom-id-ac4e9d98925d78ecba107db601e3dbdf"> <div class="view-content"> <table class="views-table cols-6 table" id="views-aggregator-datatable--2"> <thead> <tr> <th class="views-field views-field-field-dsp"> DSP # </th> <th class="views-field views-field-field-version"> Version </th> <th class="views-field views-field-title"> Title </th> <th class="views-field views-field-field-pubdate"> Date </th> <th class="views-field views-field-field-comments"> Comments </th> <th class="views-field views-field-nothing"> Versions </th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr class="odd views-row-first views-row-last"> <td class="views-field views-field-field-dsp" > <a href="https://www.dmtf.org/sites/default/files/standards/documents/DSP2017_2.0.0.pdf">DSP2017</a> </td> <td class="views-field views-field-field-version" > 2.0.0 </td> <td class="views-field views-field-title long-title" > Open Virtualization Format White Paper </td> <td class="views-field views-field-field-pubdate nowrap" > <span property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2014-04-24T00:00:00-07:00" class="date-display-single">24 Apr 2014</span> </td> <td class="views-field views-field-field-comments long-comment" > Informational </td> <td class="views-field views-field-nothing" > <a href="/dsp/DSP2017">View</a> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </div><h3>Schemas</h3><div class="view view-documents view-id-documents view-display-id-xml_schemas view-dom-id-061f1216dfdc6f8403a528d789c38b1e"> <div class="view-content"> <table class="views-table cols-6 table" id="views-aggregator-datatable--3"> <thead> <tr> <th class="views-field views-field-field-dsp"> DSP # </th> <th class="views-field views-field-field-version"> Version </th> <th class="views-field views-field-title"> Title </th> <th class="views-field views-field-field-pubdate"> Date </th> <th class="views-field views-field-field-comments"> Comments </th> <th class="views-field views-field-nothing"> Versions </th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr class="odd views-row-first"> <td class="views-field views-field-field-dsp" > <a href="http://schemas.dmtf.org/ovf/environment/1/dsp8027_1.0.xsd">DSP8027</a> </td> <td class="views-field views-field-field-version" > 1.0.0 </td> <td class="views-field views-field-title long-title" > OVF Environment </td> <td class="views-field views-field-field-pubdate nowrap" > <span property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2009-03-02T08:00:00-08:00" class="date-display-single">2 Mar 2009</span> </td> <td class="views-field views-field-field-comments long-comment" > Standard </td> <td class="views-field views-field-nothing" > <a href="/dsp/DSP8027">View</a> </td> </tr> <tr class="even"> <td class="views-field views-field-field-dsp" > <a href="http://schemas.dmtf.org/ovf/envelope/2/dsp8023_2.0.1.xsd">DSP8023</a> </td> <td class="views-field views-field-field-version" > 2.0.1 </td> <td class="views-field views-field-title long-title" > OVF Envelope XSD </td> <td class="views-field views-field-field-pubdate nowrap" > <span property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2013-08-25T07:00:00-07:00" class="date-display-single">25 Aug 2013</span> </td> <td class="views-field views-field-field-comments long-comment" > Standard </td> <td class="views-field views-field-nothing" > <a href="/dsp/DSP8023">View</a> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </div><h3>Open Source Projects using DMTF OVF Technologies</h3><div class="view view-open-source-projects view-id-open_source_projects view-display-id-open_source_projects_default view-dom-id-097100386f773ff04f8459b784a0c8c6"> <div class="view-header"> DMTF technologies are leveraged in numerous third-party open source projects. 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