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Comment: Note on max cores

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CHARON-AXP product

Minimum number of host CPU cores

Recommended number of host CPU cores

HP AlphaServer 400 - HP AlphaServer 4100

2

2

HP AlphaServer DS10 , and DS15 and DS15L

2

2

HP AlphaServer DS20

4

4

HP AlphaServer ES40

6

8

HP AlphaServer GS80

10

16

HP AlphaServer GS160

18

32

HP AlphaServer GS320

34

48

GS320

34

48

When starting, the CHARON-AXP software checks the available number of host CPU cores. Currently, this check is based on the maximum number of AXP CPUs that can be emulated, not on the number of the actually configured AXP CPUs. Therefore the number of host CPU cores recommended for the maximum number of emulated CPUs - as shown in the right column of the table above - must be available. If the available number of host CPU cores is below this number, CHARON-AXP will issue a warning message even if the requirements for the configured number of AXP CPUs are fulfilled. The CHARON-AXP software will work despite this warning if the requirements for the configured number of AXP CPUs are fulfilled.

Note

Hyper-threading must be switched off completely. Disable hyper-threading in the BIOS settings of the physical host or, for a VMware virtual machine, edit the virtual machine properties, select the Resources tab then select Advanced CPU. Set the Hyper-threaded Core Sharing mode to None.

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  • depends on the amount of HP Alpha memory to be emulated and on the number of CHARON-AXP instances to be executed on one host.

  • is calculated according to the following formula:

    The minimum host memory = (2Gb +  the amount of HP Alpha memory emulated) per CHARON-AXP instance.


Disk storage

The total amount of disk space required for CHARON-AXP can be calculated as a sum of all the disk/tape image sizes plus 50 MB for the CHARON software plus the space required for the host operating system. Temporary disk storage is often needed when setting up a new virtual machine (for source disks backups storage, software installation kits, etc...).

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  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x, 64bit
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 - 6.8, 64bit
  • Linux Centos 7.x, 64bit
  • VMware ESXi 5.5 and 6.x and up to 6.0 5 (requires a supported Linux operating system on top of a ESXi virtual machine)

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Host system preparation

Info

The automatic installation of updates must be disabled.  Updates to the CHARON host must be done only in specific service maintenance periods established by the system administrator. Before applying new updates one must shutdown the operating system running on CHARON and stop all the running CHARON instances and services.

If a network-wide license (red dongle or software license) is going to be used, do the following:

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  1. Switch to that directory:

    # cd charon-axp-<VER>-<BN>.<ZZ>

    Example:

    # cd charon-axp-4.8-18302.el71


  2. The distribution directory contains the following RPM files:

    File name

    Description

    charon-axp-VER-BN.ZZ.x86_64.rpmCHARON-AXP

    aksusbd-2.5-1.i386.rpm

    HASP Run-time

    charon-license-VER-BN.ZZ.x86_64.rpm

    CHARON Libraries

    charon-utils-VER-BN.ZZ.x86_64.rpm

    CHARON Utilities

    Example:

    # ls
    aksusbd-2.5-1.i386.rpm
    charon-axp-4.8-18302.el71.x86_64.rpm
    charon-license-4.8-18302.el71.x86_64.rpm
    charon-utils-4.8-18302.el71.x86_64.rpm 

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Installation

Issue the following command to install all the RPM files present in the directory:

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