DMTF Standards
DMTF
Redfish replaces IPMI for out-of-band server management — the API schema and protocol are DMTF standards.
What It Is
Distributed Management Task Force: Redfish (RESTful server management), CIM, SMBIOS, OVF VM packaging, and DASH.
Taxonomy
By standard: Redfish · CIM · SMBIOS · OVF · DSP documents
Top-Level Categories
Master Catalog
Sub-Indexes & Guides
Industry standards organization for IT management interoperability. Maintains SMBIOS (hardware inventory tables), the Redfish API (RESTful out-of-band server management replacing IPMI), CIM (Common Information Model), and the OVF (Open Virtualization Format) for VM packaging. Members include HPE, Dell, Intel, Microsoft, IBM, and VMware.
View all bodies →Curated specs from DMTF
SMBIOS is how software reads hardware inventory: CPU model, RAM config, system UUID, and BIOS version. Cloud hypervisors inject SMBIOS tables to identify instance type; asset management tools harvest them for CMDB population.