<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Greetings Red Hat Partners, <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We are pleased to announce the general availability (GA) of Red Hat Certification 7.30 and its associated test suite package updates (listed below). This Red Hat Certification package update *is* an official release and should be used for all new Red Hat certification submissions. Successful results from the previous certification test suite will be accepted for a period of 90 days. <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The updated Red Hat Certification packages listed below are available on the Red Hat Customer Portal at the following location: <a href="https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/282/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/282/</a> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">redhat-certification-7.30-20210622.2.el8.noarch.rpm<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">redhat-certification-backend-7.30-20210622.2.el8.noarch.rpm<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">redhat-certification-baremetal-7.30-20210622.2.el8.noarch.rpm<span 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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">redhat-certification-hardware-preview-7.30-20210622.2.el8.noarch.rpm<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">redhat-certification-openstack-7.30-20210622.2.el8.noarch.rpm<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">redhat-certification-software-7.30-20210622.2.el8.noarch.rpm <span 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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">redhat-certification-cloud-7.30-20210622.2.el7.noarch.rpm<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">redhat-certification-cloud-sap-7.30-20210622.2.el7.noarch.rpm<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">redhat-certification-hardware-7.30-20210622.2.el7.noarch.rpm<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">redhat-certification-hardware-preview-7.30-20210622.2.el7.noarch.rpm<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">redhat-certification-openstack-7.30-20210622.2.el7.noarch.rpm <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">redhat-certification-backend-7.30-20210622.2.el6.noarch.rpm<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">redhat-certification-cloud-7.30-20210622.2.el6.noarch.rpm <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Red Hat Certification management interface on Red Hat Partner Connect, which is available at <a href="https://rhcert.connect.redhat.com" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://rhcert.connect.redhat.com</a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, has been updated to use these packages. <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This release includes enhancements and bug fixes as follows: <h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;padding:16pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(67,67,67);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">New features</h3><div dir="ltr" style="margin-left:0pt" align="left"><table style="border:medium none;border-collapse:collapse"><colgroup><col width="245"><col width="379"></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height:0pt"><td style="border-color:rgb(153,153,153);border-style:solid;border-width:1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(22,27,28);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Program</td><td style="border-color:rgb(153,153,153);border-style:solid;border-width:1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(22,27,28);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Details</td></tr><tr style="height:0pt"><td style="border-color:rgb(153,153,153);border-style:solid;border-width:1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(22,27,28);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hardware Certification</td><td style="border-color:rgb(153,153,153);border-style:solid;border-width:1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(22,27,28);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Added a new NVMe over TCP test <ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A new <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">nvme_tcp<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> test is added that verifies NVMe SSD drives over the network.</li></ul><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The test is currently in Technology Preview. </td></tr></tbody></table></div> <h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;padding:16pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(67,67,67);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Bug fixes</h3><div dir="ltr" style="margin-left:0pt" align="left"><table style="border:medium none;border-collapse:collapse"><colgroup><col width="245"><col width="379"></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height:0pt"><td style="border-color:rgb(153,153,153);border-style:solid;border-width:1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(22,27,28);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Program</td><td style="border-color:rgb(153,153,153);border-style:solid;border-width:1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(22,27,28);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Details</td></tr><tr style="height:0pt"><td style="border-color:rgb(153,153,153);border-style:solid;border-width:1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(22,27,28);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hardware Certification</td><td style="border-color:rgb(153,153,153);border-style:solid;border-width:1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(22,27,28);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The netDevice name value now populates in the RDMA tests <ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,33,36);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">During the test planning, a bug prevented the netDevice name from being populated in some RDMA environments. </li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,33,36);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Manually re-planning the individual RDMA tests specifying the netDevice name in the device name is no longer necessary as the test will now populate the netDevice name from the IP address during planning.</li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We value your ongoing participation in Red Hat certification, software development, and testing efforts. Thank you for your continued partnership. If you have any questions or comments, please do not hesitate to contact Ecosystem Partner Management.<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Regards,<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Red Hat Certification Team </div>