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• On the GCP marketplace: cloud-specific Charon-SSP VE (Virtual Environment) image utilizing a customer-operated, private VE license server.
• Installation of Charon-SSP for Virtual Environments (VE) on a Linux server in the cloud using RPM packages provided by Stromasys.

Document Structure

The document contains the following main sections:

• Introduction to Charon-SSP: overview of emulator concepts.
• Virtual Hardware and Guest OS Supported by Charon-SSP for Cloud: list of supported virtual hardware and supported guest operating systems.
• Setting up a GCP Cloud Instance for Charon-SSP: basic steps to create and launch a cloud instance to be used as a Charon-SSP host system.
• Installing the Charon-SSP Manager: steps to install the main management tool for the cloud-based Charon-SSP host instance.
• Installing the VE License Server Software: steps to install the VE license server package if VE licenses are to be used.
• Accessing the Charon-SSP Cloud Instance: explains how to use SSH, SFTP, and the Charon-SSP Manager to access the cloud-based Charon host instance for management and file transfer,  and how to set the initial management password.
• Additional Charon-SSP GCP Instance Configuration: steps to add adding additional storage and network interfaces; introduction to cloud-specific networking aspects.

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• Cloud providers may change their management GUI without prior warning. Hence, the screenshots in this document may not always reflect the latest GUI appearance of the cloud provider. However, they will still provide an illustration of the described configuration steps.

• In general, the sample outputs in this document may show different versions than the one documented in this manual, but they are still representative of what a user will see.

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