Overview
Charon Virtual SPARC with VE Licensing belongs to a family of emulators from Stromasys which extend the lives of mission-critical legacy applications by unfettering them from the underlying, past-end-of-life servers such as Sun SPARC, VAX, Alpha, PDP11, and HP/PA-RISC servers.
Charon-SSP replicates the Virtual SPARC hardware layer onto industry standard x86 computer systems. Charon-SSP is fully binary compatible with SPARC hardware, including storage, Ethernet, and serial line I/O. The Charon-SSP virtual layer behaves as SPARC hardware and is compatible with SunOS, Solaris, and associated applications. This compatibility allows applications to be quickly re-hosted in the Charon-SSP virtualized environment, bypassing software code conversion, changes, or replacement.
Charon-SSP for Virtual SPARC with VE License is a specific version of Charon-SSP which permits licensing at the local Linux instance, or on its Linux VM, eliminating the requirement for a customer to access Charon-SSP via a public network.
Charon-SSP replaces SPARC systems from the Sun4m, Sun4u and early Sun4v (pre-Oracle) family. Charon-SSP supports versions SunOS 4.1 to Solaris 11.4. Solaris is "Bring-Your-Own-License"(BYOL) for Charon-SSP and customers must make available their own Solaris ISO image for the initial install, after which, the original filesystems from the legacy SPARC system may be migrated. Refer to our documentation below under Usage, for more information about this process. In addition, there is a bare metal version of Charon-SSP available. Contact us directly for more information. (Please note that Stromasys requires customers to review their specific licensing agreements as they pertain to Sun/Oracle SPARC and Solaris.) Charon-SSP for Virtual SPARC with VE licensing documentation can be found at https://stromasys.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/KBP/pages/544834018/CHARON-SSP+for+AWS
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Highlights
- BUSINESS CONTINUITY. Minimal disruption, as all applications, middleware, and data remain as is, and migrate unchanged.
- REDUCED RISK. Charon solutions diminish your risk of unplanned downtime by removing the dependency upon classic hardware
- LOWER COSTS. Charon costs less than a full migration and often less than a single-year of classic hardware support.
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64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
Version release notes
Please refer to the following page for the release notes of Charon-SSP version 5.6.9: https://stromasys.atlassian.net/wiki/download/attachments/92005645123585/Charon-SSP_5.6.9_ReleaseNotes_v1.pdf?api=v2
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Usage instructions
Charon Virtual SPARC with VE Licensing is a Bring-Your-Own-License (BYOL) offering, meaning that you will need to contact Stromasys to procure this license type. (NOTE: STROMASYS CAN ALSO DO PAID PRIVATE OFFERS.)
Charon Virtual SPARC with VE Licensing will reside on Linux in the instance, or alternately, a small instance within the private network can be created to install the VE License Server package.
Stromasys offers fully guided, paid implementation services and guided proof-of-concepts (POCs). To ensure a seamless transition, POCs are encouraged to test and validate the Charon-SSP solution for performance matching before committing to migrating production workloads. For more information about paid implementation services and POCs, please go to https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-ayqsa56giykki or contact Stromasys directly at team.support.aws@stromasys.com .
Stromasys services include legacy hardware assessments, performance assessments, solution scoping, Charon-SSP implementation and data migration assistance by skilled Solaris experts.
For all documentation, including getting Started in AWS, and our VE licensing guide, please go to: https://go2.stromasys.com/Charon-SSP-Document-Space
The Charon Virtual SPARC with VE Licensing AMI is for Sun SPARCs which were part of the 4M/4U and early 4V family. (Assessing Charon-SSP for larger, newer SPARCs, higher than 1.5 GHz, requires further review by skilled Stromasys field engineers.) In determining the proper AWS instance, the number of cores must equal the number of CPUs of the original SPARC plus a minimum of 2 additional cores. (In the case of heavy I/O, additional cores may be required.) In determining the amount of memory needed, the amount needed is equal to the memory in the original SPARC plus at a minimum, 8GB. Calculations must include the Charon emulator itself, which generates CPU overhead of approximately 1.5 GHz.
End-user license agreement By subscribing to the Charon Virtual SPARC with VE Licensing, you agree to terms and conditions outlined in Stromasys End User License Agreement (EULA)
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