Contents

Intended Audience

This Getting Started guide is intended for anyone who needs to install, configure, or manage the Stromasys Charon-SSP processor/platform emulation software in the IBM cloud. Its focus is on cloud-specific steps to install the Charon-SSP Virtual Environment (VE) emulator and license server. A general working knowledge of PC operating systems and their conventions is expected.

This guide describes the cloud-specific aspects of Charon-SSP for IBM. It is supplemented by the general Charon-SSP User's Guide for your Charon-SSP product version (see CHARON-SSP for Linux) and the VE License Server User's Guide in Licensing Documentation.

For additional information about this product, please contact Stromasys at the regional addresses listed below in Obtaining Technical Assistance, or contact your Stromasys VAR. 

Product Overview

Please contact your Stromasys representative for availability details of cloud-specific Charon-SSP options in the IBM cloud environment.

Document Structure

The document contains the following main sections:

• Introduction to Charon-SSP: overview of emulator concepts.

• Charon-SSP Cloud - Virtual HW and Guest OS Support: list of supported virtual hardware and supported guest operating systems.

• Setting up an IBM Cloud Instance for Charon-SSP: basic steps to create and launch a Charon-SSP host system in the cloud.

• Installing the Charon-SSP Manager: steps to install the main management tool for the cloud-based Charon-SSP host instance.

• Accessing the Charon-SSP Cloud Instance: explains how to use SSH, SFTP, and the Charon-SSP Manager to access the instance, and how to set the initial management password.

• Additional Charon-SSP IBM 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.

Related Documents

• General Charon-SSP User's Guide

• VE License Server User's Guide in Licensing Documentation