Overview

Charon-PAR® belongs to the Charon Solutions 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, PDP-11, and HP/PA-RISC servers. Charon-PAR emulates a range of historic PA-RISC hardware systems and allows existing users of such systems to move to modern Intel-based server hardware. The Charon-PAR emulate the complete legacy hardware, including their PCI-based I/O devices. They are precise models of the legacy hardware and contain modules that emulate the legacy hardware CPUs, console subsystem, buses and I/O adapters, disks, and tapes. This compatibility allows applications to be quickly re-hosted in the Charon-PAR virtualized environment, bypassing software code conversion, changes, or replacement. Charon-PAR replaces PA-RISC systems such as the HP-3000 series and HP-9000 series servers from Hewlett Packard.

Charon-PAR for AWS documentation can be found at resources below.

Contact Stromasys with any questions at team.support.AWS@stromasys.com

Highlights

BUSINESS CONTINUITY. Minimal disruption during migration to new hardware platforms, as all applications, middleware, and data remain unchanged.
RELIABLE. Charon-PAR servers run unmodified copies of MPE or HPUX and allow you to restore your applications and third-party software onto modern, reliable, high-performance hardware, providing the best of both worlds type of solution.
PROVEN PERFORMANCE. Charon-PAR family performance ranges from HP-3000 A400 and A500 series equivalence to mid-range multi-processor N4000 series equivalence and HP-9000 720 and B132L.

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EBS General Purpose SSD (gp2) volumes	$0.10/per GB/month of provisioned storage

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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

https://go2.stromasys.com/l/466761/2022-09-01/299g1y

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Usage instructions

This product is BYOL. To get your license you must contact Stromasys at team.support.AWS@stromasys.com . As part of the instructions, you must install our license server package. This package can be found in the directory /charon/storage. Cloud specific information under additional information of the VE license server guide: https://stromasys.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/KBP/pages/92005644369921/VE+License+Server+Version+2.0

Here is the Users Guide. The appendix has a getting started in AWS section https://stromasys.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DocCHPARv30upd1/overview

Note: The emulator with the VE license must be run as root. This has the sshuser and charon users included. the sshuser is for ssh logins the charon user is for sftp- sftp data goes to/from /charon/storage

Minimum requirements are: Intel or AMD x86-64 hardware platform (AMD support starting with Charon-PAR version 3.0.6) At least 3GHz, 3.4GHz or higher is recommended SSE 4.2 and FMA required If possible turn off hyper-threading CPU cores required: at least one CPU core for the host operating system, and at least 2 cores per emulated CPU (3 cores for future advanced DIT) RAM requirements: 4GB RAM plus 1.1 times the emulated RAM size for the emulator. Additional memory is required for I/O buffering and other Linux processes (2 to 4 GB can be used as a starting point). at least 24GB RAM for N4000 models One Ethernet interface for the host system and one Ethernet interface for each emulated Ethernet NIC. Alternatively, TAP interfaces can be used.Please note that the use of TAP interfaces is restricted to internal bridges in cloud environments (that is, a bridge cannot be linked to a NIC connectedto the cloud LAN).

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