About this Guide
Contents
Intended Audience
This Getting Started guide is intended for anyone who needs to install, configure, or manage the Stromasys Charon-SSP processor/platform virtualization software in the OCI cloud. Its main focus is on installations that use the prepackaged Charon-SSP images available on the OCI 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 guide describes the cloud-specific aspects of Charon-SSP for OCI cloud. 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 offices listed below in Obtaining Technical Assistance or General Product Information, send an email to Team.Support.OCI@Stromasys.com, or contact your Stromasys VAR.
Product Overview
Availability of cloud-specific Charon-SSP options in the OCI cloud environment (as planned at the time of writing):
On the OCI marketplace: cloud-specific Charon-SSP AL image utilizing a public, Stromasys-operated cloud-specific license server.
Installation of Charon-SSP for Virtual Environments (VE) on a Linux server in the cloud using RPM packages provided by Stromasys (customer operated license server).
Document Structure
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 Cloud: overview of the emulated hardware and guest operating systems supported by the virtual SPARC systems provided by the emulator.
Setting up an OCI Instance for Charon-SSP: basic steps to create and launch a cloud instance to be used as a Charon-SSP host system.
Installing the Charon Manager: steps to install the main management tool for the cloud-based Charon-SSP host 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 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 OCI Instance Configuration: steps to add additional storage and network interfaces; 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.