Red Hat OpenStack Certification Questionnaire (For RHEL OpenStack Platform 6 and RHEL OpenStack Platform 7)

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The following details help Red Hat understand an OpenStack solution/product that needs to be certified and how it is deployed. Partners must provide the following details when they raise a new request for Red Hat OpenStack Certification on Bugzilla using Red Hat OpenStack Certification Article-For RHEL OpenStack Platform 7 and/or This content is not included.Red Hat OpenStack Certification User Guide-For RHEL OpenStack Platform 6. The following details must be provided in the Description field of the new Bugzilla request.

Product Overview

  1. Company Name:

  2. Product name and version:

  3. Type of Product/Component (In Tree/Out of Tree/Other Application):

  4. Product license:

  5. Product Packaging Format:

  6. Product Dependencies (List all the dependencies that are not included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, For each component include name, version and URL):

Product Description

  1. OpenStack API version implemented (For example, Networking, Block Storage or Object Storage APIs implemented by your In tree/ Out of tree component):

  2. General Availability (GA) date of product via Openstack.org (Only for In tree components):

  3. Link to upstream blueprint (Only for In tree components):

  4. Link to the source code (external repository) or software download URL (Only for Out of tree components/Other applications):

  5. Link to product documentation, including (if applicable) installation and configuration steps specific to Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform (For all components/products):

  6. Hostname for your Red Hat Certification back-end server or OpenStack deployment controller node? (Note: The hostname will be the same since you are expected to run Red Hat Certification back-end server and your OpenStack deployment which is under test on the same machine)

Platform Dependency on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x

  1. Do you have OpenStack management apps which run on RHEL 7.0.x & 6.6.x (Yes/No)?

  2. Do you have OpenStack management apps which run on top of RHEL OpenStack Platform (Yes/No)?

  3. For a given RHEL OpenStack Platform release, does your hardware require linux kernel drivers shipped via Red Hat (For Red Hat Driver Update Program partners)?

Networking (Neutron) Component Specific Questions

  1. Please choose any one of the following options for the type of plugin:
  • Monolithic
  • ML2 Driver

Network Topology

  1. Which technology is used for network isolation? {For example VLAN, Tunneling (GRE/VXLAN}

  2. Which components does your solution include? (For example centralized controller, OVS, Agents, other)

  3. Please attach a diagram/file that represents an architectural overview of the system: (For example Compute nodes, OpenStack controller, Network node, SDN controller)

  4. Which component of the Open vSwitch (OVS) reference implementation are you using (if any)? (OVS, ovs-agent, dhcp-agent, l3-agent, metadata-agent)

  5. If you are using Open vSwitch, please answer the following questions:

  • Are you using OVS -Userspace? If yes which upstream version of OVS -Userspace are you using? Are you using a forked version delivered by you?
  • Are you using OVS-Kernel in your solution? If yes, you are dependent on which version of OVS-Kernel?

Advanced Services/Extensions

  1. Does your solution support LBaaS (Yes/No)?

  2. Does your solution support VPNaaS (Yes/No)?

  3. Does your solution support FWaaS (Yes/No)?

    If the answer to any of the above questions is “Yes”, please provide a brief description of your solution:

  4. Is your solution dependant on any specific hardware? (For example switch, router, NIC). If so, please specify which hardware is required by your solution:

High Availability Certification with RHEL OpenStack Platform 6.0

  1. Is your solution fully HA for all the components involved? Please describe the recommended HA deployment for your solution:
    Examples:
    RHEL OpenStack Platform + Neutron with GRE
    RHEL OpenStack Platform + your specific drivers
    RHEL Pacemaker + RHEL OpenStack Platform

Certification Reference Configuration for the Physical hardware Switches

  1. Arista
  2. Cisco (Nexus and other product lines)
  3. Mellanox
  4. Juniper

Refer Red Hat High Availability Configuration for more details.

Block Storage Specific Questions

1. Does your driver support interaction with the following minimal core Block Storage services ? The following is a checklist of all core Block Storage services which your volume driver must support to qualify for Red Hat OpenStack certification:

  • Volume Create/Delete
  • Volume Attach/Detach
  • Snapshot Create/Delete
  • Create Volume from Snapshot
  • Get Volume Stats
  • Copy Image to Volume
  • Copy Volume to Image
  • Clone Volume
  • Extend Volume
  • driver_version
  • free_capacity_gb
  • reserved_percentage
  • storage_protocol
  • total_capacity_gb
  • vendor_name
  • volume_backend_name

2. What is the supported protocol of your driver ? (iSCSI, FC)

Sahara Component Specific Questions

1. Please specify the Sahara provisioning plugin supported by your solution:

  • Cloudera Plugin (Cloudera Images in KVM supported format)
  • Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) Plugin (HDP Cluster Images in KVM supported format)
  • MapR Plugin

2. Please specify the following:

  • Node Group Template:
  • Version Recertification:
  • Security Group API consumption:
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