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• This Getting Started Guide covers the basic installation and setup of the Charon-SSP for GCP (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.
• Product features, configuration, and management of Charon-SSP cloud-specific images is covered in the Charon-SSP for Marketplace - Configuration and Management Guide.
• The Release Notes of your product 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.AWS@Stromasys.com, or contact your Stromasys VAR. 

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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.
• Charon-SSP Product Variant Comparison: overview of differences between the different Charon-SSP products (conventional, Baremetal, AWS AMI).
• Setting up a Charon-SSP AWS Cloud Instance: basic steps to create and launch a Charon-SSP AWS EC2 instance.
• Installing the Charon-SSP Manager: the Charon-SSP Manager must be installed on a local system to access and manage the Charon-SSP AWS EC2 host and the emulated systems running on it.
• Accessing the Charon-SSP AWS 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 AWS Instance Configuration: steps to add additional storage and network interfaces.
• Next Steps: 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.
• AWS Networking and Charon-SSP: overview of networking functionality that is specific to the AWS 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 AWS 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.
  • Example of a More Complex Network Configuration: example involving two Charon-SSP AWS instances with one acting as router and NAT gateway.
• Data Transfer Options: information about how data can be transferred to/from the host and guest.
• Firewall and AWS Security Group Considerations: information about ports used by the different applications.
• Upgrading Charon-SSP AWS: ways to upgrade Charon-SSP AWS to a higher version.
• OpenBoot Console: OpenBoot console command overview

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