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Intended Audience

This user's Getting Started 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 in the Azure cloud. Its main focus is on installations that use the prepackaged Charon-SSP images available on the Azure Cloud marketplace. However, it may also be helpful when creating a Linux server in the cloud for a conventional RPM installation of Charon-SSP products. A general working knowledge of PC operating systems and their conventions is expected.

This Getting Started Guide covers the basic installation and setup of the guide describes the cloud-specific aspects of 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. 

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

Please always read the release notes of your product for important information regarding known problems and possible workarounds.

If you require . it is supplemented by the general Charon-SSP User's Guide and the VE License Server User's Guide.

For additional information about this product, please contact Stromasys at the regional addresses below or at offices listed below in Obtaining Technical Assistance or General Product Information, send an email to Team.Support.Azure@Stromasys.com, or contact your Stromasys VAR. 

Product Overview

Availability of cloud-specific Charon-SSP options in the Azure cloud environment (as planned at the time of writing):

• On the Azure 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 This document contains the following main sections:

• Introduction to Charon-SSP: overview of emulator concepts.
• Virtual Hardware and Guest OS Supported by Charon-SSP for AzureCloud: list overview of supported virtual the emulated hardware and supported guest operating systems .Charon-SSP Product Variant Comparison: overview of differences between the different Charon-SSP products (conventional, Baremetal, Azure image)supported by the virtual SPARC systems provided by the emulator.
• Setting up a an Azure Cloud Instance for Charon-SSP Azure Cloud Instance: basic steps to create and launch a cloud instance to be used as a Charon-SSP Azure instancehost system.
• Installing the Charon-SSP Manager: the Charon-SSP Manager must be installed on a local system to access and manage the steps to install the main management tool for the cloud-based Charon-SSP Azure host and the emulated systems running on ithost 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 Azure 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 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; introduction to cloud-specific networking aspects.

Please note:

• 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.

Related Documents

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• Charon-SSP User's Guide and Release Notes
• VE License Server User's Guide