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The Charon-SSP VPC cloud BYOL License server provides a new type of licensing for the Charon-SSP product. However, any Charon emulator product requires a license to runThis is in addition to the already existing licensing models. This section briefly describes the different licensing concepts and products.
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Charon-SSP
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Cloud BYOL Licenses
The main characteristics of VPC (Virtual Private Cloudcloud BYOL (bring your own license) licenses are the following:
- Software licenses only.
- Developed by Stromasys.
- Installed on Charon-SSP host or separate license server.
- Require the Charon-SSP VPC cloud BYOL license server software.
- Require VPC-capable matching Charon-SSP emulator software.
- Are specific to a cloud (can only be used in cloud environments (at the time of writing: AWS, OCI, Azure) or VMware (planned) environment.
- Currently only available for Charon-SSP products.
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Please refer to the Charon License Handbook (Handbooks) for details about these licenses.
Automatic Cloud Marketplace Licensing
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When installing a Charon-SSP image from a supported cloud marketplace (at the time of writing: AWS, OCI, Azure), the cloud instance automatically receives a license at first launch. The license server must be reachable via a cloud-specific public IP address.
Reason for Cloud BYOL Licenses
Other license types have drawbacks that prompted the development of BYOL licenses:
- USB dongles are by nature not suitable for cloud environments and their use in VMware environments is somewhat complex.
- Sentinel software licenses are easy to install in
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- a cloud or VMware environment. However, their ties to real hardware characteristics also
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- make it easy to inadvertently invalidate them in such
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- environments. Hence they are also not suited for use in cloud
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- environments. Other Sentinel software license types do not provide the same level of license security.
- Marketplace automatic licensing does not allow a customer-specific environment in the cloud without Internet access.
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- This is not suitable for many customers.
Cloud BYOL licenses are designed to enable the ease-of-use of software licenses while providing a high level of security for licensing Charon-SSP products in cloud environments.
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