Management Information Base for Virtual Machines Controlled by a Hypervisor
RFC 7666
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) H. Asai
Request for Comments: 7666 Univ. of Tokyo
Category: Standards Track M. MacFaden
ISSN: 2070-1721 VMware Inc.
J. Schoenwaelder
Jacobs University
K. Shima
IIJ Innovation Institute Inc.
T. Tsou
Huawei Technologies (USA)
October 2015
Management Information Base for Virtual Machines
Controlled by a Hypervisor
Abstract
This document defines a portion of the Management Information Base
(MIB) for use with network management protocols in the Internet
community. In particular, this specifies objects for managing
virtual machines controlled by a hypervisor (a.k.a. virtual machine
monitor).
Status of This Memo
This is an Internet Standards Track document.
This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force
(IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has
received public review and has been approved for publication by the
Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Further information on
Internet Standards is available in Section 2 of RFC 5741.
Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at
http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7666.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. The Internet-Standard Management Framework . . . . . . . . . 3
3. Overview and Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
4. Structure of the VM-MIB Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
5. Relationship to Other MIB Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
6. Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
6.1. VM-MIB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
6.2. IANA-STORAGE-MEDIA-TYPE-MIB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
7. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
8. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
9. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
9.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
9.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Appendix A. State Transition Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
1. Introduction
This document defines a portion of the Management Information Base
(MIB) for use with network management protocols in the Internet
community. In particular, this specifies objects for managing
virtual machines controlled by a hypervisor (a.k.a. virtual machine
monitor). A hypervisor controls multiple virtual machines on a
single physical machine by allocating resources to each virtual
machine using virtualization technologies. Therefore, this MIB
module contains information on virtual machines and their resources
controlled by a hypervisor as well as information about a
hypervisor's hardware and software.
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The design of this MIB module has been derived from product-specific
MIB modules -- namely, a MIB module for managing guests of the Xen
hypervisor [Xen], a MIB module for managing virtual machines
controlled by the VMware hypervisor [VMware], and a MIB module using
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