topic Re: Hardware sizing document and installation recommendations for SAS Viya 4 in Moving to SAS Viya

Hardware sizing document and installation recommendations for SAS Viya 4

vfarmak — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 13:18:10 GMT

Hello everyone!

As a SAS Customer, we are currently doing a sizing exercise about our storage and we need to have the Hardware Sizing document from SAS that calculates what are the hardware and software requirements for a SAS Viya 4 installation on Open Kubernetes. We are focusing on the engine and not the Visual Analytics part.

I have entered the Customer Service portal but I cannot find the document. Do you know the location of that file.

Kind regards,

Vasileios Farmakiotis

Re: Hardware sizing document and installation recommendations for SAS Viya 4

SASKiwi — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 19:09:34 GMT

I suggest you engage with your SAS Account Manager. When we went through this exercise it involved filling out documents provided by SAS regarding our current SAS usage. These get passed back to SAS's IT architecture specialists who then do the sizing exercise and pass the results back to you. At least in our part of the world this is provided as a free service.

Re: Hardware sizing document and installation recommendations for SAS Viya 4

LinusH — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 10:08:12 GMT

When you say storage, do you mean SW and data on disk?

Disk is usually cheap (unless you have humongous sized data) and usually easy to augment over time.

Cores and RAM usually drives cost.

Apart from contacting SAS, here are some useful (?) links:

System Requirements:

https://documentation.sas.com/doc/en/itopscdc/v_072/itopssr/titlepage.htm?fromDefault=#page=9

Sizing Recommendations:

https://documentation.sas.com/doc/en/sasadmincdc/v_072/itopssr/n08i2gqb3vflqxn0zcydkgcood20.htm

Sizing Prez:

https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Explore-Presentations/Sizing-your-SAS-Viya-4-Environment/ta-p/838247

Re: Hardware sizing document and installation recommendations for SAS Viya 4

vfarmak — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 15:07:04 GMT

Hi @SASKiwi

Indeed I conversed with the SAS Account Manager.

He will instruct us on how to answer the questionnaire regarding the sizing about Kubernetes Environment and the SAS Viya 4 Content Migration Tool.

Best Regards,

Vasileios