[tsc] Fwd: URGENT Input Needed for the Technical Strategy Document

Wed Nov 1 10:00:06 CST 2006

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Franco Travostino" <travos at nortel.com>
> Date: 29 October 2006 15:15:20 GMT
> To: "David Snelling" <David.Snelling at uk.fujitsu.com>, "Cees deLaat"  
> <delaat at science.uva.nl>
> Cc: "Joel Replogle" <replogle at ogf.org>, "Mark Linesch"  
> <mark.linesch at hp.com>
> Subject: Re: URGENT Input Needed for the Technical Strategy Document
>
>
> Dave,
> before we provide actual spec updates concerning my Area, I want to  
> brief you on two noteworthy activities that we seeded during  
> calendar year 2006 and could result in material for the roadmap.
>
> 1. Grids and Virtualization. As anticipated back in January, we did  
> hold a BOF on this topic at OGF18. The BOF manifesto presented a  
> set of use cases and goals that resonated quite well with the  
> audience, while steering clear of obvious overlaps (e.g., DMTF was  
> represented in the room and helped formulating the charter).  
> Intriguingly, the BOF hit a chord at SAP. Alexander G. of SAP (see  
> his email hereafter) has gotten back to us and is now working with  
> me on drafting an augmented charter. While Alexander's email  
> wanders some into non-OGF turfs (for instance, you can ignore the  
> sentence to the extent that OGF would become a player in the  
> hypervisor space, he later retracted it), Alexander makes an  
> important point. He argues that virtualization is a large enough  
> topic that the OGF governance ought to be involved in isolating the  
> signal from noise and promoting that signal as a distinguishing OGF  
> contribution to the industry.
>
> 2. Elements of "Service Grid". The OGF/ITU workshop which we held  
> last week at ITU in Geneva (with Mark) is another key 2006  
> deliverable and a springboard for future activities. The effort of  
> planting the Grid seed over there was worthwhile, despite the fair  
> amount of talking past one another that is due to happen when you  
> put computer-heads and network-heads together in the same room.  
> Specifically, there are elements of Grid infrastructure that  
> seemingly apply well to a SOA-ized next-generation network like the  
> one that ITU is building. These elements include WS-Agreement (with  
> network domain-specific derivations), the security "cartwheel"  
> architecture and supporting specifications, the schema by the  
> Network Monitoring working group, etc. I think of ITU (and others,  
> like the IPsphere consortium) building a "service grid" (this term  
> was introduced by John Seely Brown afaik) and envision that OGF can  
> play a role in this space by way of selected specifications.
>
> I will close with a note on interoperability. I want to stick to  
> the optimistic view that the newly formed ETSI TC Grid  group will  
> be a meaningful player whose role is to complement OGF. For this, I  
> volunteer that GridFTP and the NM-WG schema are material for  
> plugtest exercises and within the ETSI comfort zone. I would  
> therefore recommend to engage ETSI on these grounds, with GridFTP  
> being the most mature spec in the pipeline.
>
> -franco
>
>
>
>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Gwen Nichols-White <gnwhite at ogf.org>
>> Date: Oct 24, 2006 8:21 AM
>> Subject: DMTF and Virtualization
>> To: travos at ieee.org, alexander.gebhart at sap.com, "Fogel, Robert" <  
>> robert.fogel at intel.com>, Craig Lee <craig at rushg.aero.org>
>>
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>> From Alexander:
>>
>> Overall Concept / Big Picture
>>
>> Virtualization technologies, or to be more specific hypervisor  
>> technologies,
>> are getting more and more important. Key indicators are
>>
>>         1) dramatically increased revenue of VMware ESX
>>         2) major customers are rapidly deploying virtualization  
>> technologies
>>         3) estimated VMworld (Nov. 7, 2006) participants: 4000-6000
>>
>> Hypervisor technologies are providing key features that are very  
>> important
>> in a resource management context. Example: VMotion = the ability  
>> to move any
>> application during runtime from one physical machine to another.  
>> From my
>> point of view the key capabilities of hypervisors should be usable by
>> resource management software, meaning that resource management  
>> software
>> could integrate hypervisor capabilities. By pursuing this goal,  
>> OGF would
>> become a player in the hypervisor area.
>>
>> Deliverable(s):
>>
>> OGF should define what I would call profiles (similar to WSI).  
>> Each profile
>> consists of a defined set of functionalities and a standardized  
>> interface to
>> access them. Examples:
>> Profile A: Functionality = get monitoring information from any  
>> hypervisor
>> Profile B: Functionality = manipulate hypervisor resources (e.g.  
>> increase
>> memory, network bandwidth, processing power)
>> Profile C: Functionality = move VM from one physical machine to  
>> another
>> OGF could also add best practices / guidance for customers, e.g.  
>> which type
>> of profile is recommended for which use case.
>> Another enhancement could be a certification, e.g. OGF certifies that
>> resource management system X works perfect with hypervisor Y using  
>> profile A
>> on HW Z.
>>
>> Stakeholders / Key players:
>> VMware, Xen, IBM, SAP, Intel, Microsoft
>>
>> Roadmap:
>> 1) Identify responsibles. In my opinion it should be an OGF VP,  
>> since this
>> effort has in my opinion a significant impact on the performance  
>> of OGF as
>> an organization.
>> 2) Align with related activities
>> 3) Get buy-in from the stakeholders / key players
>> 4) Establish an OGF virtualization working group with the  
>> deliverables
>> mentioned above
>> 5) Organize kick-off meeting
>>
>>
>
>
> At 05:37 PM 10/19/2006, David Snelling wrote:
>
>> [Bicycle crash boiler plate: I will include this boiler plate in my
>> mails for a few weeks to apologize for terseness in the rest of the
>> mail.  I have a broken finger from the crash on Oct 4th, and typing
>> is hard and possible only in short spurts. Sorry, Dave.]
>>
>> Cees and Franco,,
>>
>> This has been an outstanding request to all ADs for some time now, so
>> I am sending personal reminders to all AD's. I need you to look at
>> the roadmap table in here and correct the entries for specs in your
>> area. Also, if you have additional details on each, such as a list of
>> those companies/orgs that have committed to implementation by a
>> certain time, that would help as well. Please aim for the end of the
>> month, as I know you probably need to contact chairs.
>>
>> Just send you responses in email, I'll integrate them into the  
>> document.
>>
>> Thanks.
>> --
>>
>> Take care:
>>
>>      Dr. David Snelling < David . Snelling . UK . Fujitsu . com >
>>      Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe
>>      Hayes Park Central
>>      Hayes End Road
>>      Hayes, Middlesex  UB4 8FE
>>
>>      +44-208-606-4649 (Office)
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>>
>>

[Bicycle crash boiler plate: I will include this boiler plate in my  
mails for a few weeks to apologize for terseness in the rest of the  
mail.  I have a broken finger from the crash on Oct 4th, and typing  
is hard and possible only in short spurts. Sorry, Dave.]

-- 

Take care:

     Dr. David Snelling < David . Snelling . UK . Fujitsu . com >
     Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe
     Hayes Park Central
     Hayes End Road
     Hayes, Middlesex  UB4 8FE

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