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Would require high level steps in install and configure SAS servers installation and configuration.

chalapathi — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 14:55:49 GMT

Hi All,

Would require high level steps in install and configure SAS servers installation and configuration from scratch.

Below are the requirement.

One Metadata Server

Two Compute Server nodes along with LSF configuration and GSUB setup and latin encoding and all application servers creation.

Middle Tier Server.

Thanks,

Chalapathi.

Re: Would require high level steps in install and configure SAS servers installation and configurati

Sajid01 — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 17:04:43 GMT

Hello @chalapathi
Looks like you plan to install SAS Grid environment.
The best approach is to contact the SAS Tech Support for guidance.

They will provide appropriate guidance based on your specific needs.

Re: Would require high level steps in install and configure SAS servers installation and configurati

chalapathi — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 06:15:33 GMT

Thank you Sajid for your reply..

Yes. Our requirement is to install Grid Environment. Thing is before reaching SAS tech support we also want to understand the steps.

This is a good opportunity to any member to build and configure the set up from scratch.

If any one is aware of the detailed steps that would be helpful.

Thanks.

Re: Would require high level steps in install and configure SAS servers installation and configurati

gwootton — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 15:50:21 GMT

Here's the documentation on installing and configuring SAS:

https://go.documentation.sas.com/doc/en/bicdc/9.4/biig/titlepage.htm

Grid requires a custom plan file, this file specifies the different tiers. LSF is installed separately. Documentation on that can be found here:

https://support.sas.com/en/software/support-platform-suite-for-sas.html

Re: Would require high level steps in install and configure SAS servers installation and configurati

AnandVyas — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 04:21:36 GMT

Hi @chalapathi,

High Level steps are:

1) Install/Configure LSF
2) Install/Config Metadata server
3) Install/Config compute servers
4) Install/config Midtier server

Hope this helps!

Re: Would require high level steps in install and configure SAS servers installation and configurati

doug_sas — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 11:49:13 GMT

While @AnandVyas is correct from a very very high level, there are a lot of decisions you need to make that can greatly affect the performance and availability of your SAS deployment. Things like

What types of computers are you installing on? Do you have enough power to do the work you expect?
- If doing data intensive work (ETL), do they have enough IO throughput per core?
- If doing compute intensive work, do they have enough cores?
How is the SAS processing going to be distributed across the computers? Will metadata/mid-tier/compute be shared on any machines?
Are you going to install / config the deployment on each machine or will you install / configure to a shared filesystem and share the install / config to all other hosts? This will depend somewhat on the operating system you are going to use. UNIX/Linux deployments tend to install / configure to a shared filesystem and just mount that filesystem to all hosts.
What shared filesystem are you going to use? At a minimum, LSF requires one but you need to ask yourself
- Is SASWORK going to be on the shared file system or local to each host?
- Is SAS data be stored on the shared filesystem?
- Are you going to have the metadata server failover to another host such that the filesystem needs to handle the metadata server?
How are you going to keep the deployment highly available?

SAS Professional Services can be engaged to help you with all of these questions and more.