Charon-SSP Cloud Instance Prerequisites
By selecting an instance type or shape, you select the virtual hardware that will be used for the Charon host instance in the cloud. Therefore, the selection of an instance type or shape determines the hardware characteristics of the Charon virtual host hardware (e.g., how many CPU cores and how much memory your virtual Charon host system will have).
Please note:
- If you use a Charon-SSP marketplace image to launch your instance, all Linux host operating system requirements are fulfilled.
- If you use a generic Linux marketplace image to launch your instance, please refer to the Charon-SSP for Linux User's Guide for the software requirements that must be fulfilled.
General Notes
The minimum hardware requirements are described below. To learn about the default settings and how to use the Charon-SSP configuration options to determine the resource allocation, refer to the different configuration sections of the general Charon-SSP User's Guide of your Charon-SSP version (see Charon-SSP for Linux), in particular, the CPU Configuration section. Please note the following points regarding the sizing guidelines: The CPU core allocation for emulated CPUs and CPU cores for I/O processing is determined by the configuration. See CPU Configuration in the general Charon-SSP User's Guide for more information about this and the default allocation of CPU cores for I/O processing. Important general information:
Every deployment situation must be reviewed and the actual host sizing has to be adapted as necessary. For example, the number of CPU cores available for I/O must be increased if the guest applications produce a high I/O load. Also, a system with many emulated CPUs is typically able to create a higher I/O load and thus the number of CPU cores available for I/O may have to be increased. In a hyper-threading environment, for best performance, the number of CPU cores (i.e., real/physical CPUs) should be sufficient to fulfill CPU requirements of the active emulators, thus avoiding high-workload threads sharing one physical CPU core.
Instance Prerequisites
General CPU requirements: Charon-SSP requires modern x86-64 architecture processors. This could be Intel Servers based on Haswell v3 processors or later, or Desktop Core I7 (CPU frequency at least 3.0 GHz). AMD processors of the same or higher performance are also supported. Minimum requirements for Charon-SSP: 4GB or more of RAM for the Linux host operating system. The actual requirements may be higher and will depend on the requirements of the non-emulator services running on the Linux host. The previous recommendation of at least 2GB of RAM for the Linux host will still be valid for many systems, but the increasing requirements of the Linux operating system and applications have led to the updated recommendation for new installations. Plus:
In addition, note the following points:
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