Chapter 2. The Certification Process

2.1. Certification Process Overview

Partners are required to follow the following preliminary steps:

  1. The partner establishes a certification relationship with Red Hat.
  2. The partner stands up a test environment consisting of the partner’s product and the Red Hat product combination to be certified.
  3. The partner does preliminary testing to ensure this combination works well.
  4. The partner installs the redhat-certification tool.

Certification Steps:

  1. The partner creates a certification request for a specific system or hardware component using redhat-certification.
  2. Red Hat’s certification team applies the certification policies to the hardware specifications to create the official test plan.
  3. The partner runs the tests specified in the official test plan and submits results using redhat-certification to Red Hat for analysis.
  4. The certification team analyzes the test results and marking credit as appropriate and communicating any required retesting.
  5. The partner provides Red Hat with a representative hardware sample that covers the items that are being certified.
  6. When all tests have passing results, the certification is complete and the entry is made visible to the public on the external Red Hat Hardware Certification website at https://access.redhat.com/certifications.

A full description of the hardware certification process can be found in the Hardware Certification Test Suite User Guide, Hardware Certification Process Summary section.