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Charon-SSP  requires a license to run emulated SPARC systems. There are two different cloud-specific Charon-SSP product variants with two different licensing models (availability may differ depending on cloud environment)::

1. The cloud-specific Charon-SSP for Marketplace image utilizing a public, Stromsys-operated cloud-specific license server.
2. The Charon-SSP VE (Virtual Environment) image utilizing a customer-operated, private VE license server.

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1. Charon-SSP

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1. VE is available as a pre-packaged image on some cloud platforms, and as RPM packages for a conventional installation on a server in the cloud

Both licensing options are briefly described below. Please contact your Stromasys representative for any questions about product availability and licensing options.

Please note: the user is responsible for any Solaris licensing obligations and has to provide the appropriate licenses.

Automatic Marketplace Licensing Overview

Charon-SSP for Azure Marketplace requires Marketplace images with automatic licensing run a specialized Charon-SSP environment. They require a license to run emulated SPARC systems. This license is created automatically upon first launch of the Charon-SSP Azure instance. Please note the following points:

• The Charon-SSP Azure instance requires Internet access (via public IP address or NAT) for the license mechanism to work. If NAT is used, the gateway must be an Azure instance in the same cloud-environment (the source address must be from the Azure address range of the same cloud provider in which the Charon-SSP host instance runs). At the time of writing, the license servers that must be reachable on Azure are cloud-azure1.stromasys.com and cloud-azure2.stromasys.com on port 8080. Also a A DNS service must be reachable to resolve the host names of the license servers, or corresponding entries in /etc/hosts must exist.
• If you change the instance size after first launching the instance and thereby change the number of CPU cores (or if the number of CPU cores is changed by any other method), the license will be invalidated.
• Some license problems (e.g., additional CPU cores needed) may require moving the emulator to a new instance. Therefore, it is strongly recommended to store all relevant emulator data on a separate disk volume that can easily be detached from the old instance and attached to a new instance.
• Should access to the license be lost while the emulator is running, there is a grace period of 24 hours. If license access is not restored within this period, the emulator will stop (if a guest system is running at the time, this is the equivalent of disconnecting the power without clean shutdown, i.e., it may lead to loss of data).

Please note: You will be billed by Microsoft Azure the cloud provider for your use of the Charon-SSP Azure instance. Stromasys will not bill you directly.

VE Licensing Overview

Please note: currently This licensing option is applicable to pre-packaged Charon-SSP VE images are not available for the Azure cloud. This section is for information onlyon cloud marketplaces and to VE-capable Charon-SSP emulator software installed from RPM packages.

Charon-SSP VE license characteristics:

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