[Hwcert-announce-list] Red Hat Certification 7.15, 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 7.15 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-7.15-20200805.1.el8.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-baremetal-7.15-20200805.1.el8.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-cloud-7.15-20200805.1.el8.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-cloud-sap-7.15-20200805.1.el8.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-hardware-7.15-20200805.1.el8.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-hardware-preview-7.15-20200805.1.el8.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-openstack-7.15-20200805.1.el8.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-software-7.15-20200805.1.el8.noarch.rpm

redhat-certification-7.15-20200805.1.el7.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-backend-7.15-20200805.1.el7.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-baremetal-7.15-20200805.1.el7.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-cloud-7.15-20200805.1.el7.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-cloud-sap-7.15-20200805.1.el7.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-hardware-7.15-20200805.1.el7.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-hardware-preview-7.15-20200805.1.el7.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-openstack-7.15-20200805.1.el7.noarch.rpm

redhat-certification-backend-7.15-20200805.1.el6.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-cloud-7.15-20200805.1.el6.noarch.rpm


This release includes enhancements and bug fixes as follows:
1. Support for additional virtualization features to accompany Red Hat
Virtualization 4.4 (RHV 4.4). These hardware certification tests are
optional to perform but mandatory to receive the feature listing in
the catalog:
   a. fv_cpu_pinning: This test configures the vCPU of the guest
virtual machine and allocates to the CPU of the host physical machine
and will add the CPU Pinning feature to the catalog entry.
   b. fv_network: This test launches the guest virtual machine and
runs the network test on a network passthrough device. It verifies
that the hardware network device is functioning as expected within the
VM and will add Network Hardware Pass-Through feature to the catalog
entry.
   c. fv_pcie_passthrough: This test checks if a PCIe device connected
to the host machine can be assigned to appear natively in the guest
virtual machine and will add the PCIE Pass-Through feature to the
catalog entry.
   d. fv_storage: This test launches the guest virtual machine and
runs the storage test on a storage passthrough device. It verifies
that the hardware storage device is functioning as expected within the
VM and will add Storage Hardware Pass-Through feature to the catalog
entry.
   e. fv_usb_passthrough: This test checks if a USB device connected
to the host machine can be assigned to appear natively in the guest
virtual machine and will add the USB Pass-Through feature to the
catalog entry.

RHV 4.4 is built from RHEL 8, and as a result each of the RHV 4.4
specific tests can be conducted on RHV 4.4 or on RHEL 8. The
additional features will be added to RHV certification entries
regardless of where the testing was conducted.

2. Corrected a command line prompt where running the "rhcert-cli
submit" command would prompt the user to enter their portal ID. This
is now corrected to ask for the Certification ID instead.

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