[Hwcert-announce-list] Moving the Fast Datapath Network Adapter support matrix to the Red Hat Ecosystem Catalog

[Red Hat Partner Certification Operations Team]

Greetings Red Hat Partners,

The Network Adapter Support table
<https://access.redhat.com/articles/3538141#network-adapter-support-3> in
the Network Adapter Fast Datapath Feature Support Matrix Knowledge Base
<https://access.redhat.com/articles/3538141>
<https://access.redhat.com/articles/3538141#network-adapter-support-3>will
be migrated to the Red Hat Ecosystem Catalog <https://catalog.redhat.com/>
/ Certified Hardware <https://catalog.redhat.com/hardware>/Components
<https://catalog.redhat.com/hardware/search?type=Component%7CCPU%20Collection%7CNetwork%20Adapter%20Collection>
space during Q3 CY’23. The information contained in the knowledge base will
be more accessible and searchable for customers as well as enable Fast
Datapath (FDP)

 features display and linking for our partners in their certifications.

This change will see the network adapters that are currently listed in the
Network Adapter Support table added to the Ecosystem Catalog as networking
components. The FDP features (SR-IOV, OVS, DPDK, OVS-Offload, and OVS-DPDK)
will also be listed as certified in the granularity section with the
conversion from the FDP number.letter version to the appropriate  RHEL
major.minor version. The FDP version will not appear in the catalog.

The knowledgebase will then be updated to provide a search query within the
Ecosystem Catalog for customers to follow for the  information they are
receiving today on the knowledge base.  Customers will also be able to
search the Ecosystem Catalog directly for FDP features, as they do today
for other networking features.

Partners are encouraged to continue to conduct their network component
certifications as well as the joint FDP testing with the Red Hat Networking
team as is done today.  New FDP achievements after this change will require
a RHEL component certification to associate the FDP features. This change
is necessary to enable the customer’s experiences above and as such Red Hat
will stop adding new network cards and FDP features to the knowledge base.

If you are already certifying your network components and conducting FDP
testing with the Red Hat networking team, you should notice no changes
beyond the experience benefits for our joint customers.  If you are
conducting FDP testing but had not previously completed the network
component certification, this should be easily achievable but will block
future FDP listings.

We value your ongoing participation in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Certification efforts and thank you for your continued partnership. If you
have any questions or comments, please do not hesitate to contact the Red
Hat Certification Operation Team through the Red Hat Partner Acceleration
Desk, in your certification, or directly at cert-ops at redhat.com.

Regards,

The Red Hat Certification Team
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