Supported Virtual Hardware
The different families of Charon-SSP virtual machines support a number of different hardware devices. The table below describes the device features and maximum number supported by the different Charon-SSP virtual machine families.
| Charon-SSP supported virtual hardware in cloud-specific products | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Charon-SSP/4M | Charon-SSP/4U(+) (1) | Charon-SSP/4V(+) (1) | |
SPARC V8 (32-bit) | Y | ||
SPARC V9 (64-bit) | Y (2) | Y (4) | |
Max. number of CPUs | 4 | 24 | 64 |
| Max. RAM | 64MB to 512MB | 1GB to 128GB | 1GB to 1024GB (5) |
| Ethernet controllers | 2 | 19 | 4 (controller types bge and qfe) |
| SCSI controllers | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| SCSI target IDs | 7 (3) | 30 (3) | 30 (3) |
| VDS storage devices | 120 (7) | ||
| Serial ports | 2 | 2 | 2 + Vconsole |
| Graphics controllers | 1 (CGTHREE or CGSIX (6)) | 1 (CGSIX or RAGE XL) | |
| Audio controllers | 1 (DBRIe) | 1 (DBRIe) | |
(1) Charon-SSP/4U+ has the same virtual hardware specification as Charon-SSP/4U, Charon-SSP/4V+ the same as Charon-SSP/4V. Charon-SSP/4U+ and Charon-SSP/4V+ are only supported on physical Intel hardware (VT-x support) and with Linux kernels provided by Stromasys. AMD support for Charon-SSP/4U+ and Charon-SSP/4V+ is currently only experimental.
(2) SPARC V9 is backward compatible. Hence, Charon-SSP/4U can also support V8 32-bit systems.
(3) Each SCSI target ID can have up to 8 LUNs. Therefore, the overall number of SCSI devices can be larger than the number of target IDs. The exact number depends on the emulated hardware, the guest operating system and driver versions, and the SCSI devices used.
(4) Charon-SSP/4V supports one LDom per instance. An LDom virtual disk image can be booted by Charon-SSP directly (system device configuration may have to be adjusted for differences in emulated hardware).
(5) Actual maximum values are different depending on guest OS: Solaris 10: 1TB, Solaris 11: 512GB.
(6) CGSIX emulation is not supported for SunOS 4.x guest systems.
(7) Guest systems starting with Solaris 10-U6 can use VDS and/or SCSI storage devices.
Supported Guest Operating Systems
The Charon-SSP/4M virtual machines support the following guest operating system releases:
SunOS 4.1.3 - 4.1.4
Solaris 2.3 to Solaris 9
The Charon-SSP/4U(+) virtual machines support the following guest operating system releases:
Solaris 2.5.1 to Solaris 10
The Charon-SSP/4V(+) virtual machines support the following guest operating system releases:
- Solaris 10 (starting with update 4, 08/07) and Solaris 11.1 to Solaris 11.4
Please note:
- For the emulated SPARC T4, supported Solaris 10 versions are:
Oracle Solaris 10 1/13, Oracle Solaris 10 8/11, and Solaris 10 9/10, or Solaris 10 10/09 with Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 patch set. - The emulated SPARC T4 model is a prerequisite for running Solaris 11.4 in the emulator.