Chapter 1. Introduction to Red Hat Cloud Instance policies

As a Certified Cloud and Service Provider (CCSP) Partner who want to learn about the requirements of offering their own hardware. The Red Hat Cloud Instance Type certification presumes an advanced level of hardware and Red Hat product knowledge and skills.

The certification process includes a series of tests that provide your Red Hat customers:

The Red Hat Cloud Instance Type Certification provides a formal means for you to work with Red Hat to establish an official support for your hardware.

An Instance Type is required to include a set of compute, network, management, and storage features to establish a functioning system environment. You can select your specific feature requirements for an Instance Type according to the intended application or use cases at your own discretion. An Instance Type may also include one or more sizes if the features provided by the Instance are available in a variety of capacities such as, faster and slower networking, smaller and larger storage, more and less logical cores.

During the certification process, Red Hat engineers follow the process described in Overview of test plan to create a test plan suitable for your Instance Type specification. The test plan defines the testing criteria required to achieve certification for the overall Instance Type including the sizes.

To be eligible for certification, ensure the following requirements are met:

Certifications are currently available for:

Submit a report in the Red Hat Bugzilla system against the product Red Hat Certification Program. Fill in the Description field with your suggestion for improvement, try to be as specific as possible when describing it. If you find an error in the documentation include a link to the relevant part(s) of the documentation.

The Red Hat Cloud Instance Type Certification Workflow Guide assists you with the steps on Opening a Support Case.