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Hardware Requirements

Number of CPU cores

Each CHARON-AXP emulated CPU requires a corresponding physical core. So the total number of the host CPUs must exceed the number of emulated CPUs since some of the host CPUs must be dedicated to serving CHARON I/O operations and host operating system needs. If several CHARON instances run in parallel, the required number of CPU cores is cumulative.

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The following table lists the minimum and recommended number of CPUs required for each virtual HP Alpha instance (note that each CHARON instance is able to run on 2 CPU cores hosts, but this configuration does not support emulation of all the virtual CPUs):

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It is also possible to use virtual network interfaces, but for performance considerations, it is recommended to use physical ones only.

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Software Requirements

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Software Requirements

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x, 64bit
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 - 6.10, 64bit
• Linux Centos 7.x, 64bit
• VMware ESXi 5.5 and 6.x up to 6.7 (requires a supported Linux operating system on top of a ESXi virtual machine)
  

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Before installation

1. Login as the superuser ("root") on the host system. Because Sentinel HASP runtime relies on 32-bit compatibility libraries to run on Linux, the 32-bit compatibility libraries must be installed before continuing. If the emulator host has access to a package repository, either local or remote, use the following command:

   # yum install glibc.i686

   Sometimes it is not possible to use an online repository for the installation of 32-bit glibc package. In this case the procedure described in the appendixes has to be used: glibc.i686 installation without Internet connection

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2. Create a directory for the CHARON-AXP distribution, copy the TAR.GZ files there and change to this directory as shown in the following example:

   # mkdir /charon_dist # cp /tmp/charon-axp-4.10-20200.el74.tar.gz /charon_dist # cd /charon_dist

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3. On RHEL 7.x and CentOS 7.x, the "libev" package is required. If it is reported as missing during CHARON installation on RHEL 7.x check that the repository "extras" is included and enabled, if not, include and enable it. Please refer to your Linux distribution administrator's guide. Example for RHEL 7.x:

   # yum-config-manager --enable rhel-7-server-extras-rpms

   
   

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• Extract the contents of the distribution TAR.GZ files to the current directory:

  # tar -xvzf charon-axp-<VER>-<BN>.<ZZ>.tar.gz

  where:

  	Description
  VER	Version of CHARON-AXP product, for example 4.10
  BN	Build Number of CHARON-AXP product, for example 20200
  ZZ	CHARON-AXP target operating system identifier. For CentOS 7.x 'ZZ' value is 'el74', for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x the value is 'el74' and for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 to 6.10 the value is 'el65'.

  Example:

  # tar -xvzf charon-axp-4.10-20200.el74.tar.gz

  As a result, the new directory "charon-axp-<VER>-<BN>.<ZZ>" will be created.
   

  
  

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1. Switch to that directory:

   # cd charon-axp-<VER>-<BN>.<ZZ>

   Example:

   # cd charon-axp-4.10-20200.el74

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2. The distribution directory contains the following RPM files:

   File name	Description
   charon-axp-VER-BN.ZZ.x86_64.rpm	CHARON-AXP
   aksusbd-7.63-1.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
   charon-mtd-VER-BN.ZZ.x86_64.rpm	MTD utility

   Example:

   # ls aksusbd-7.63-1.i386.rpm charon-axp-4.10-20200.el74.x86_64.rpm charon-license-4.10-20200.el74.x86_64.rpm charon-utils-4.10-20200.el74.x86_64.rpm charon-mtd-4.10-20200.el74.x86_64.rpm

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