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The minimum hardware requirements are described below. To learn about the default settings and how to use the Charon-SSP configuration options to determine the resource allocation, refer to the different configuration sections of the general Charon-SSP user's guide guide in particular, the CPU Configuration section.
Please note: Not all instance types and sizes on Azure offer the recommended minimum CPU speed for the host system. Whether such instance types can provide adequate performance depends on customer requirements.
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Step 1: Click on the Virtual machines or on the Marketplace icon on the home page. If you create your instance via the Marketplace icon, please select the Charon listing from the Marketplace offerings, select to create an instance, and continue with Step 3.
This Clicking on Virtual machines opens the virtual machines overview list.
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- Your subscription
- Existing resource group (or click on Create new)
- Virtual machine name (cannot be changed after launching the instance)
- Region for the virtual machine
- Charon-SSP Azure image. Click on Browse all public and private images to select the correct image. If installing a prepackaged marketplace Charon-SSP image, this image must be used. If you plan to install Charon-SSP using RPM packages, use a Linux version supported for Charon-SSP.
- Size of your VM (click on Select size to see a list of available sizes)
- User name for the administrative user of the VM (enter sshuser)
- Authentication type. Select SSH public key and paste the public key of the key-pair to use into the field provided.
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- Enter the user sshuser as the administrative user.
- Select SSH public key authentication. You can then use one of the following steps to install your SSH public key.
- Let Azure create a new key-pair for you.
- Use the public key from a key-pair on your computer. As shown in the example below, you will have to past your public key into the field provided.
- Use a key-pair previously created on Azure.
- The default allowed inbound port will allow SSH connections without limiting the source IP range. Remember to adapt it Some images will also have preconfigured access rules that cannot be changed on this configuration page. In either case, remember to adapt the rules to your requirements after creating the instance or in the Networking tab (advanced) during the creation of the instance.
Click on Next: Disks. This will open the Disks tab of the VM creation window.
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- Virtual Network (existing or new)
- Subnet (default or other subnet)
- Whether a public IP should be assigned or not (note that the license server must be accessed via a public IP address from the Azure range)
- Basic, advanced, or advanced preconfigured security settings (which ports are open for access to the VM).
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