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This user's guide is intended for anyone who needs to install, configure, or manage the Stromasys Charon-SSP processor/platform virtualization software. The content of this manual is targeted at general users (not just system managers and administrators). However, a general working knowledge of PC operating systems and their conventions is expected.

Overview of Charon-SSP for Azure relevant documentation:

• This Getting Started Guide covers the basic installation and setup of the Charon-SSP for Azure (marketplace image) product variant, This appliance package contains the full software set including the underlying Linux host operating system. Interactive host operating system access is limited to a subset of commands.

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• Product features, configuration, and management of Charon-SSP cloud-specific images is covered in the Charon-SSP 4.2.0 for Cloud - Management Guide.

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• The Release Notes of your product

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• provide important information regarding known problems and possible workarounds.
  
• The user's guides for the general non cloud-specific products provide additional information, for example, about configuration file contents and running the emulator from the command line.

If you require additional information about this product, please contact Stromasys at the regional addresses below or at Team.Support.Azure@Stromasys.com, or contact your Stromasys VAR. 

Document Structure

The This document contains the following main sections:

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• Setting up a Charon-SSP Azure Cloud Instance: basic steps to create and launch a Charon-SSP Azure instance.
• Installing the Charon-SSP Manager: the Charon-SSP Manager must be installed on a local system to access and manage the Charon-SSP Azure host and the emulated systems running on it.
• Accessing the Charon-SSP Azure Instance: explains how to use SSH, SFTP, and the Charon-SSP Manager to access the instance, and how to set the initial management password.
• Additional Charon-SSP Azure Instance Configuration: steps to add additional storage and network interfaces.
• Configuring and Managing the System Using the Charon-SSP Manager: shows how to configure and run emulated SPARC systems.
• User Access to the Virtual SPARC System: shows the different methods of how a user can access the console of the emulated SPARC system and the guest operating system.
• Azure Networking and Charon-SSP: overview of networking functionality that is specific to the Azure environment, and detailed steps to configure two specific network configurations.
• SSH VPN - Connecting Charon Host and Guest to Customer Network: describes how to create a VPN tunnel between a remote Linux system and the Charon-SSP Azure instance to enable communication between host, guest, and customer network.
Dedicated NIC for Guest System: describes how to add a second NIC to the Charon host system for use by the guest system.
• Data Transfer Options: information about how data can be transferred to/from the host and guest.
• Firewall and Azure Network Security Group Considerations: information about ports used by the different applications.
• Upgrading Charon-SSP Azure: ways to upgrade Charon-SSP Azure to a higher version.
• OpenBoot Console: OpenBoot console command overview

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