Chapter 6. Pass-Through certification

A Pass-Through Certification refers to the ability of a third-party system or component to be granted certification for hardware previously certified by the original hardware manufacturer. Pass-Through can reduce the overall amount of testing that is required to be performed and submitted to Red Hat to achieve certification for the third-party hardware.

System manufacturers can extend a certification granted to their own systems to another vendor’s system where the original vendor:

The third-party cannot then extend their Pass-Through Certification to another vendor.

While both vendors are required to be members of the Red Hat Hardware Certification Program, only the original vendor may request Pass-Through Certifications. Vendors may also utilize the Pass-Through process, where the same vendor has multiple names for the same hardware.