Chapter 5. Layered Product Certifications

5.1. Layered Product Certifications

Layered product certifications are built up on a completed Red Hat Enterprise Linux certification and list a system as Certified for additional Red Hat software products. At this time, we offer layered product certifications for Red Hat OpenStack Platform Compute, Red Hat Gluster Server, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Real Time.

Partners can create Layered Product Certifications either by Automatic generation of a Layered Cert or Manual creation of a Layered Cert

  • Generating a Layered Cert Automatically:

    A layered cert can be generated automatically only if the status of the hardware cert is Certified. The Red Hat certification team makes the hardware cert Public for it to be listed on the Red Hat Certification web user interface. Following are the steps to auto generate a hardware layered cert:

    1. Click on the hardware cert that has to be certified and made public on the Red Hat Certification web user interface.
    2. Click the Dialog tab.
    3. In the New Comment text box enter the comment (for example,“Please certify and make the cert public”).
    4. Click the Add Comment button.

After the Partner adds comment for the requested hardware cert, the Red Hat certification team certifies and makes the certificate public. Partners will receive an email once the cert is certified and public.

Login to the Red Hat Certification web user interface. The new auto created layered certs will be listed on the web user interface. If not, click the Refresh button, the new certs should be downloaded.

  • Creating a Layered Cert Manually:

    A layered cert can be manually created for hardware certs that has the status In Progress. Following are the steps to manually create the layered cert:

    1. Click on the hardware cert that has to be certified from the Red Hat Certification web user interface.
    2. Click the Dialog tab.
    3. In the New Comment text box enter the comment for the Red Hat certification team to certify the hardware cert. For example “Please certify the hardware cert”.
    4. Click the Add Comment button.

After the request is completed by the Red Hat certification team, Partners can manually create the layered cert from the Red Hat Certification web user interface in either of the following two ways:

  1. Selecting the Hardware Cert:

    1. From the Red Hat Certification web user interface, click the hardware cert that is certified from the Red Hat certification and needs Layered cert.
    2. Click the Related Certification tab.
    3. In Layered Certifications section, click the New Certification button. This will take you to the New Layered Certification web page.
    4. Select the Product and Version from the drop down list.
    5. Click Create button.

  2. Using the New Certification button:

    1. From the Red Hat Certification web user interface, click the New Certification button. This will take you to Choose the Red Hat certification web page.
    2. From the Product drop-down list, select the Layered Product. The Version and Platform value gets generated automatically. However, partners can select the version and platform fields according to their requirement. Click Next button. This will take you to Choose the product to be certified web page.
    3. Select the Vendor, Make, and Name items from the drop-down list. Click Next button.

    A notification of the requested Hardware certification for the new product is displayed. The newly created layered cert will be visible on the Red Hat Certification web user interface.

5.1.1. Certifying for Red Hat OpenStack Platform Compute

A certification entry for Red Hat OpenStack Platform Compute is automatically created for every Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 x86_64 server certification request. No additional tests beyond Red Hat Enterprise Linux certification are needed to achieve the Red Hat OpenStack Platform Compute certification. Your system will be marked Certified for both Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat OpenStack Platform Compute on successful completion of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux certification, assuming no issues are present that would cause problems running the OpenStack Platform Compute node. If you have any questions about this, please contact your Red Hat Support representative.

5.1.2. Certifying for Red Hat Gluster Storage

A certification entry for Red Hat Storage Server is automatically created for every Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, and 7 x86_64 server certification request.

No additional testing beyond the normal Red Hat Enterprise Linux certification tests are required to receive this certification, but a specification review will be performed by the review team before the certification can be granted.

More information on the specification requirements for Red Hat Storage Server can be found at the Red Hat Knowledgebase article entitled Red Hat Storage Server 2.1 Compatible Physical, Virtual Server and Client OS Platforms.

5.1.3. Certifying for Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Real Time

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Real Time is used for time-critical workloads that need to execute in a defined, predictable way.

Any server that is certified to run Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, AMD64 and Intel 64 architecture, is eligible to be certified for Real Time.

If you are interested in certifying a system to run Real Time, confirm that it is already certified for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, x86_64 architecture, then talk to your Red Hat Support representative to learn more about Real Time.

5.1.4. Certifying Red Hat OpenStack Platform for Real Time Applications

Red Hat Openstack Platform for Real-Time Applications is designed to deliver ultra-low latency for performance-sensitive environments.

Red Hat OpenStack Platform for Real-Time Applications Certification, relatively verifies that the cyclic test performed on a VM using a dedicated pinned CPU does not exceed a maximum latency as defined in the Red Hat Hardware Program Policy Guide.

Partners are expected to perform the fv_real-time test when the kernel Real-Time (kernel-rt) is running and the supported full virtualization is enabled by the machine. If the SUT is not connected to the internet, Partner will need to download the qcow2 image to the LTS. Run the following commands as root to download the qcow2 image:

Note

See the section Hosting Prebuilt Guest Files on the LTS for partner ftp URL. 

cd /var/www/rhcert/
mkdir -p store/transfer/fv-images/RHEL7/
cd store/transfer/fv-images/RHEL7/
wget <partner ftp url>/hwcert/fv-images/RHEL7/rhel-kvm-rt-image.qcow2.tar.bz2
cd -
chown -R --reference=store store
rhcertd restart
Important

While the test is running, the connection to the SUT may be lost as the machine will reboot automatically for the configuration changes performed by the test to take effect. This test takes over 12 hours to complete and maximum latency could be 40 microsecond or less.