topic Re: SAS 9.3 grid installation on multiple machines with 2 midtiers for Failover in Administration and Deployment

SAS 9.3 grid installation on multiple machines with 2 midtiers for Failover

wesas — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 17:55:52 GMT

I would like to install a 9.3 m2 grid environment in a multiple machine virtual box environment. Mid tier would be jboss with a failover concept using F5.

Any insights appreciated.................

Re: SAS 9.3 grid installation on multiple machines with 2 midtiers for Failover

jakarman — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 08:32:55 GMT

Go for 9.4 if you need a failover concept. The reasons:

- SAS(R) 9.4 Intelligence Platform: System Administration Guide, Third Edition configuring metadata clusters is new.

When you want to have a failover in a grid-environment the SAS metadata and LSF master are most critical components

LSF is IBM as third-party component Scalability Community: Platform Suite for SAS in the LSF admin guide appendix there are several things on Ego mentioned.

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSETD4_9.1.2/lsf_unix_install/lsf_installnewwin_egocontrol_con.dita

With SAS 9.2 you can achieve high availability by using LSF-EGO https://support.sas.com/rnd/scalability/grid/SGF09_SASHA.pdf.

- Your investment in JBOSS at the midtier is worthless as SAS is moving into VMfabric alternatives (Apache based) that are included in the installation.

http://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings14/SAS305-2014.pdf

http://support.sas.com/rnd/scalability/grid/HA/GridMgrHAServices.pdf see figure 5 for DNS for manual intervention as being limited to passive failover.

Re: SAS 9.3 grid installation on multiple machines with 2 midtiers for Failover

wesas — Tue, 02 Dec 2014 21:04:59 GMT

Thanks Karman.

We have a current 9.3 M2 production grid environment. I'm installing a dev 9.3 grid environment.

Hopefully in a year I'll be able to convince my organization to move to 9.4.

For now I'm stuck with sas 9.3.

Re: SAS 9.3 grid installation on multiple machines with 2 midtiers for Failover

AndrewHowell — Tue, 02 Dec 2014 22:48:30 GMT

Hi.

General rule #1 - Always start at the SAS Support Web site. In your case, that's the Install Center - https://support.sas.com/documentation/installcenter/

Then come back to this group if you have problems or there's something you don't fully understand.

Regards,

Andrew.

Re: SAS 9.3 grid installation on multiple machines with 2 midtiers for Failover

sassy_inmin — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 15:45:09 GMT

Thanks to all for your input.