topic Re: SAS BI 9.3 and VA 9.4 in Administration and Deployment

SAS BI 9.3 and VA 9.4

luisrafa3012198 — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 14:41:37 GMT

I have a question about the deployment of a VA 7.3 SAS 9.4.

It is possible to combine using the same metadata server a VA 7.3 SAS 9.4 with a SAS BI enviroment in the SAS 9.3 version?

Re: SAS BI 9.3 and VA 9.4

JuanS_OCS — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 14:44:45 GMT

Hi,

no, it is definetely not an option, since 9.3 and 9.4 use different system's metadata folders and different logical types, for starters.

But you can use them with separate servers and use AutoLoad, or update BI 9.3 to BI 9.4 (same maintenance level as the VA server!).

Re: SAS BI 9.3 and VA 9.4

Andy547 — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 14:46:09 GMT

No, combining two versions of SAS in a single Metadata Server will fail to deply. If for some reason it deployed, all of the updates, hotfixes and Web server deployments would fail.

Andy

Re: SAS BI 9.3 and VA 9.4

SASKiwi — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 23:17:33 GMT

You can combine SAS BI and VA though if they are both the same version and maintenance level, for example SAS BI V9.4M3 and VA 7.3.

However since SAS VA is upgraded more frequently than SAS BI a lot of sites are choosing to install VA separately.