[Hwcert-announce-list] Red Hat Certification 7.9, Test Suite Updates, and Updated Certification Workflow Site Available

[Engineering Partner Management]

Greetings Red Hat Partners,

We are pleased to announce the general availability (GA) of Red Hat
Certification 7.9 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.

The updated Red Hat Certification packages listed below are available
on the Red Hat Customer Portal at the following location:

https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/282/

redhat-certification-backend-7.9-20200331.el8.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-baremetal-7.9-20200331.el8.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-cloud-7.9-20200331.el8.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-hardware-7.9-20200331.el8.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-hardware-preview-7.9-20200331.el8.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-openstack-7.9-20200331.el8.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-software-7.9-20200331.el8.noarch.rpm

redhat-certification-7.9-20200331.el7.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-backend-7.9-20200331.el7.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-baremetal-7.9-20200331.el7.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-cloud-7.9-20200331.el7.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-hardware-7.9-20200331.el7.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-hardware-preview-7.9-20200331.el7.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-openstack-7.9-20200331.el7.noarch.rpm

redhat-certification-backend-7.9-20200331.el6.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-cloud-7.9-20200331.el6.noarch.rpm


This release includes enhancements and bug fixes as follows:

1. iPXE is added as a certifiable hardware feature for RHEL 8 hardware
certification. This includes a new "ipxe" test in the test suite as
well as an iPXE feature in the Red Hat Ecosystem Catalog. This ipxe
test checks the underlying NIC for iPXE using a combination of a
preconfigured iPXE boot image and an HTTP boot call against the LTS.
Further details on how to test iPXE for certification can be seen in
the Red Hat Hardware Certification Test Suite User Guide.

2. New 200Gbps versions of the hardware certification network and RDMA
tests are added. The new tests include 200GigEthernet, Infiniband_HDR,
200GigRoCE, and 200GigiWarp tests respectively.

3. A regression in the hardware certification network test which would
cause the wireless test to fail on RHEL 8 is fixed
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1799066). This bug was
introduced in the hardware certification network test with
redhat-certification 7.6 and resulted in ifup/ifdown being used
instead of the nmcli command.

4. The memory quantity check has been updated for the RHEL 8 minimum
requirement of 1.5GB per logical core. The RHEL 7 minimum requirement
has not been changed and remains at 1GB per logical core. This check
is now also implemented as a planning condition for the hardware
certification memory, core, realtime and all the full-virtualization
tests, for all the supported platform versions. If the minimum memory
per core is not met in the current SUT these tests will not plan by
default as testing would be impacted for viability of the test run
and/or viability of receiving certification credit for the run. Users
may choose to manually plan these tests in such conditions.


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.


Regards,
The Red Hat Certification Team