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VE stands for "Virtual Environment" denoting Charon emulators and the environment in which they run. At the time of writing, the VE license server is supported in selected cloud and VMware environments, and on physical servers.
A VE license server provides licenses to can run in one of two basic modes of operation:
- General VE license server mode: license server for one or more emulator instances. Customers must purchase their license from Stromasys, and use a VE-enabled emulator product. The license is based on the emulator model configuration required and typically valid for a certain period of time (it has an expiration date) , or for a defined number of runtime hours.
- AutoVE mode (selected cloud environments only): AutoVE is an extension of the cloud-specific Charon-SSP Automatic Licensing (AL) where licensing is configured automatically when the cloud instance is launched. The Charon host instance must be launched from a supported, cloud-specific marketplace image. The customer is billed by the cloud provider, but the AutoVE license server is managed by the customer and part of the customer cloud environment.
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, Nutanix 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.
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- 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 mode was supported for the following cloud environments (SSP AL marketplace images version 5.3.8 and above): AWS, OCI, GCP, and Azure.
For additional information about this product, please contact Stromasys at the regional addresses below or contact your Stromasys VAR.
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