CHARON Alpha Computer Virtualization Software provides a reliable, quick & inexpensive solution for owners of AlphaServers who want to move their applications away from this platform now it has been declared end-of-life. CHARON Alpha creates the hardware environment of an AlphaServer computer inside a standard Windows 64 PC workstation or PC server. Your existing Alpha software recognizes this virtual Alpha as the original hardware and will continue to run unchanged. Your disk content from your AlphaServer is migrated to the new host with the CHARON-AXP Hardware Virtualization Software allowing you can to continue to use your existing applications, databases and procedures without modification. Your existing Alpha operating system can be migrated to the CHARON Alpha environment or OpenVMS/Tru64 can be installed directly from its original distribution kit. All of your original OS and application software functionality is maintained. Your existing VMS or Tru64 licenses are valid in the CHARON environment by purchasing a license transfer from HP for a nominal fee.

	CHARON Alpha Product Information:  CHARON-Alpha 6/500  CHARON-Alpha 5/600  CHARON-Alpha 4/266  CHARON-AlphaStation for Windows
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• CHARON Alpha Virtualization Benefits:
• Replicates Alpha Computer Hardware on a new server platform with no code changes – no source code is required!
• Allows future development and enhancement of VMS/Tru64 applications just like the original Alpha.
• Reduces cost of ownership for hardware maintenance, power & cooling.
• Preserves the current VMS application investment.
• Substantial performance increases are possible due to the more modern, faster disk I/O and faster 1 GB networking with up to 4 network ports.
• Take advantage of inexpensive PC disks for growth of databases.
• Enables connection to feature-rich SAN disk storage.
• Much faster and easier backup of VMS/Tru64 disks.
• CHARON Virtualization has multiple price performance levels to allow an organization to buy in at any level from an inexpensive archive system to a 300+ users data center size system.
• Removes proprietary Alpha hardware replacing it with industry standard HP Proliant or HP Bladservers removing the risk of older proprietary computers shutting down critical applications for extended periods of time.
• Allows multiple instances of CHARON Alpha to run on a single multi-core PC server to enable server consolidation.
• CHARON products supported by HP & Oracle as a stable environment for VMS OS and VMS applications.
• CHARON Virtualizations installed in over 500 locations around the country in many mission critical Fortune 100 and Department of Defense applications.

CHARON Alpha Product Overview

• CHARON Alpha 6/500 provides a Alpha 21264 (EV6) CPU with 2,500 TPS of performance and up to 8 GB of VMS/Tru64 accessible RAM memory to create the hardware environment of an AlphaServer DS10 or DS20 inside a standard Windows x64 based server system providing hardware renewal without software migration. CHARON Alpha does not require application code to be recompiled or rebuilt in any way. Access to PC connected SCSI tapes, SCSI disks, peripherals, SAN drives, CDROM, serial ports and up to four 1,000 MB NIC ports are provided to VMS/Tru64.
• CHARON Alpha 5/600 provides a Alpha 21164 (EV5) CPU with 1,600 TPS of performance and up to 8 GB of VMS/Tru64 accessible RAM memory to create the hardware environment of an AlphaServer 1x00, 2x00, 4x00, 800 or AlphaStation 500 inside a standard Windows x64 based server system providing hardware renewal without software migration. CHARON Alpha does not require application code to be recompiled or rebuilt in any way. Access to PC connected SCSI tapes, SCSI disks, SAN drives, CDROM, serial ports and up to four 1,000 MB NIC ports are provided to VMS/Tru64.
• CHARON Alpha 4/266 provides a Alpha 21064 (EV4) CPU with 700 TPS of performance and up to 8 GB of VMS/Tru64 accessible RAM memory to create the hardware environment of an AlphaServer 1x00, 2x00, AlphaStation 400 inside a standard Windows x64 based server system providing hardware renewal without software migration. CHARON Alpha does not require application code to be recompiled or rebuilt in any way. Access to PC connected SCSI tapes, SCSI disks, SAN drives, CDROM, serial ports and up to four 1,000 MB NIC ports are provided to VMS/Tru64.
• CHARON AlphaStation provides a Alpha 21064/200 (EV4) CPU with 350 TPS of performance and up to 512 MB of VMS/Tru64 accessible RAM memory of performance to create the hardware environment of an AlphaStation 200 inside a standard Windows x64 based server system providing hardware renewal without software migration. CHARON Alpha does not require application code to be recompiled or rebuilt in any way. Access to PC connected SCSI tapes, SCSI disks, SAN drives, CDROM, serial ports and up to one 1,000 MB NIC port are provided to VMS/Tru64.