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Introduction

This guide is intended for anyone who needs to install, configure, or manage the Stromasys Charon Virtual Environment (VE) license server. A general working knowledge of Linux and its conventions is expected.

VE stands for "Virtual Environment" denoting Charon emulators and the environment in which they run. At the time of writing, this term refers to supported the VE license server is supported in selected cloud and VMware environments, and on physical servers.

A VE license server can run in two basic modes of operation: general VE license server mode, and AutoVE mode (AWS only).

For Charon emulator products using such to use a VE licenses, customers must purchase their license from Stromasys. This is different from , and use a VE-enabled emulator product. Additionally, for Charon products to use an AutoVE license, the Charon host instance must be launched from a supported AWS marketplace AMI. AutoVE is an extension of the cloud-specific Charon-SSP Automatic Licensing (AL) images where licensing is configured automatically when the cloud instance is launched.

This guide covers the Charon VE License Server software. This package contains a license server application that can be installed in customer-specific AWS, OCI, GCP, Azure, IBM and VMware environments, and on physical servers. This licensing option is adapted to the special requirements of virtualized environments and simplifies the process of running Charon emulator products in supported cloud and VMware environments. The license server is managed by the customer.

Please note:

• VE licenses provided by a VE license server require VE-enabled Charon emulator software.
• At the time of writing this support was available for Charon-SSP (starting with Charon-SSP version 4.2.x).
• For a full description of Charon-SSP configuration and management aspects that are not related to the specifics of the VE license application, please refer to the Charon-SSP user's guide of you version (see CHARON-SSP for Linux).
• At the time of writing, AutoVE was only supported for AWS.

For additional information about this product, please contact Stromasys at the regional addresses below or contact your Stromasys VAR. 

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