Chapter 3. Prerequisites
The bare metal prequiste comprises of the Program Membership, Baseboard Management Controller (BMC), and Servers.
3.1. Program Membership and Accounts
To create a Bare Metal certification, the Partner should have a certification for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Hardware and Red Hat Openstack Compute (Nova).
If you have a Red Hat Hardware Certification account, you are ready to test your product.
Creating a certification for Bare Metal requires that the certifying partner has already received certification for RHEL Hardware and RHOSP Compute (Nova). Your organization must be registered with the Red Hat Hardware Certification account.
3.2. Baseboard Management Controller
For the bare metal certification of BMC, certified RHEL system with a BMC is required. The BMC certification may then be published separately as a component or certified and kept private for leverage in follow-on servers. For more information see the section Leverage from the Bare Metal Policy Guide.
3.3. Servers
The following certifications are required on servers in order to begin RHOSP Hardware (bare metal) certification:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Hardware (Server)
- Red Hat OpenStack Platform Compute (Nova)
- Component Certification for Leveraging (Optional)
- Red Hat OpenStack Platform Hardware (Optional)
For more information about these certifications, see the RHEL Hardware Test Suite User Guide and the RHEL Hardware Program Policy Guide.
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