Charon-SSP by Stromasys is a SPARC emulator designed to minimize downtime and keep critical applications running reliably. It reduces operational expenses by eliminating reliance on aging Sun SPARC hardware and components. With Charon-SSP, no major software changes are required, ensuring your management routines remain intact. It is compatible with leading virtualization platforms like VMware and Oracle VM, offering flexibility. The solution leverages modern security and disaster recovery tools to protect your systems and improves performance with Stromasys’ dynamic instruction translation (DIT) technology. Charon-SSP works on the principles of Lift and Shift emulation, creating a virtual replica of the original Sun SPARC hardware inside a standard 64-bit x86 compatible with the LINUX based host or in the cloud. This allows you to run the original SPARC binary code, including the Sun Solaris Operating Systems, their layered products, and applications.

Features:

• Minimize downtime: Keep critical applications running more reliably than ever before.

• Reduce operational expenses: Eliminate reliance on aging Sun SPARC hardware and components.

• No major software changes required: Your management routines will remain intact.

• Compatible with leading virtualization platforms: Offers flexibility with VMware and Oracle VM.

• Leverage modern security and disaster recovery tools: Protect your systems.

• Improve performance: With Stromasys’ dynamic instruction translation (DIT) technology.

• Available Versions for Different SPARC Hardware Charon-SSP offers three tailored versions to virtualize specific Sun SPARC hardware, providing flexibility to meet your needs:

  • Charon-SSP/4M – Virtualizes Sun-4m/V8 1/4
  • Charon-SSP/4U – Virtualizes Sun-4u/V9 1/24
  • Charon-SSP/4V – Virtualizes Sun-4v/V9 1/64

• The Management Application Charon Manager is an integral component of Charon-SSP and works as the virtual Sun SPARC management station. It can be installed as a standalone application on Linux and provides an easy-to-use, intuitive graphical interface to manage Charon-SSP – either locally or remotely.

• Product License Key Charon-SSP supports both hardware license keys and software licenses. Users get the flexibility to select the preferred protection method. When a Sun SPARC hardware USB license key is used, the Charon USB HASP license key must be permanently connected to the host system, preserving the customer-specific license parameters.