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• The number of available Intel or AMD CPU cores in the emulator host should be at least 1.5 times the number of emulated AXP CPU cores
• The recommended number of available CPU cores in the emulator host is 2 times the number of emulated AXP CPU cores
• Intel Xeon E5 v3, minimum 3GHz CPUs are recommended for optimal CHARON-AXP performance
• At least DDR3 1600 DDR4 2133 MHz RAM is recommended for optimal CHARON-AXP performance. The minimum amount host memory depends on the amount of HP Alpha memory that is desired and on the number of CHARON instances running on one host. As a rule of thumb, the minimum host memory is the total amount of HP Alpha memory for all emulator instances plus  2GB, with a minimum of 2GB, resulting in 4GB minimum recommended host memory.
• Mid range and high end RAID controllers with at least 1GB write-enabled cache with battery backup is recommended. Using low end RAID controllers can cause problems such as significant performance degradation. RAID10 is preferred. RAID5 is not recommended.

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New Functionality Introduced in Build 168-03 since Build 155-08

• DS10 emulator has been added to CHARON-AXP/DS10 DS10, along wiht DS10L and DS15 (ID#4176)
• PCI Pass Through support for FC is implemented (ID#2467)
• Physical PCI Fiber Channel presentation mode is supported (ID#4294)
• PCI-to-PCI bridges are implemeted implemented (ID#4428)
• Multifunction PCI device multifunction is devices are fully supported (ID#4007)
  
• CHARON 's interface for external diagnostic data collection is implemented (ID#4385)
• Statistics counters for storage and network subsystems are implemented (ID#4141)
• CPU state transition reasons (HALT <-> RUN) is logged with indication of reason for that are logged (ID#4264)
• Several ways of TOY synchrosization synchronization to CHARON host are is available (ID#4144)
• CPU IDLEing IDLE for SMP Alpha emulators is available (ID#4169)
• "hasp_view " utility is updated to allow managing SL licenses view Software Licenses (ID#4172)
• Emulated DE602 (Compaq NC3131) adapter is and DE602AA adapters based on Intel i8255x are implemented (ID#4185, 4293)
• HALT command for CHARON-AXP SRM console is implemented (ID#4239)
• "session license_key_id" parameter is introduced to manage multiple licenses available to CHARON access order (ID#4249)
• A specific A  sample script is included to in the kit allowing to run CHARON as daemon (ID#4238)
• DM Multipath Disk multipath devices are supported now (ID#4328)
• mkdisk utility can transform a target disk size/type (ID#4329, 4506)
• Sentinel protection support HASP is upgraded to the last versions version (ID#4285)
• WebUI package is distributed separately now  (ID#4364)
• EIx0_MODE envronment environment variable is introduced to configure DE602 (Compaq NC3131) adapter (ID#4366)
• CHARON Network Configuration Utility (NCU) is introduced to help with configuration of the configure host network interface interfaces dedicated to CHARON (ID#4373)
• "license_key_lookup_retry" parameter is introduced in order to check configure multiple CHARON license several times in checks with a specified interval between retries  (ID#4399)
• Only English localization is supported supported (ID#4509)
• New version of VMinfo is integrated (ID#4486)
  
• The installation "update" feature is supported (ID#4227)
  
• NCU utility has been significantly improved (ID#4563)

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