topic SAS Grid Automated Installation in Administration and Deployment

SAS Grid Automated Installation

gra_in_aus — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 00:09:16 GMT

Planning to install SAS Grid on AWS FSx on Lustre (Linux) and wanted to know if the installation of the grid could be automated to replicate the environment in case of failure. Otherwise, there is alot of hours would be lost if a manual installation is required.

Re: SAS Grid Automated Installation

MargaretC — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 00:28:00 GMT

I would suggest you create an AMI of your install. You can then just attach the AMI in case something happens to your instances.
Margaret

Re: SAS Grid Automated Installation

gra_in_aus — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 01:24:29 GMT

I want to avoid AMI, I would like to have a installation script in case of issues with availability zones, etc.

Re: SAS Grid Automated Installation

doug_sas — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 11:54:33 GMT

With SAS Grid Manager in 9.4M6, the deployment of SAS Workload Orchestrator and SAS Job Flow Scheduler are through the SAS Deployment Wizard and you should be able to use its unattended install feature to install your deployment.

Previous versions of SAS Grid Manager (now called SAS Grid Manager for Platform in SAS 9.4M6) had the installation of Platform Suite for SAS as a 3rd party install prerequisite for the SAS Deployment Wizard so SDW's unattended install feature would not be able to be used for Platform Suite for SAS. However, the installation of Platform Suite for SAS on Linux is a command line based install that could probably be automated without much trouble.

If you install & configure to a shared file system (as opposed to a local file system), new machines may be able to be added/removed without having to reinstall/redeploy your software - you would just need to start the necessary services on your new machine.