topic What is the advantage of multiple LASR servers in SAS Visual Analytics

What is the advantage of multiple LASR servers

Filipvdr — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 11:28:26 GMT

Hello,

Are there any other advantages for having multiple LASR servers except

- setting security

- allocate memory

Filip

Re: What is the advantage of multiple LASR servers

alexal — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 12:15:38 GMT

@Filipvdr,

That's it, plus I would add that you can run LASR server using different TKGrid installations with a different number of worker nodes.

Re: What is the advantage of multiple LASR servers

JuanS_OCS — Fri, 28 Sep 2018 13:12:49 GMT

Hi @Filipvdr,

I fully agree with @alexal, that would be, from the technical point of view.

From the business point of view, I would like to add that the benefit (of the technical benefits) is that you can separate "tenants" or business units, and backcharge by load.

Another one, also business related, is that you can separate data loaded in controlled way (by IT or developers) from the data loaded by self-service such as some autoloads or the GUI import (such as import excel files). Hence, again backcharging, but also you ensure the main data (controlled) will load always, and disk/RAM won't be eaten by self-service.

Re: What is the advantage of multiple LASR servers

Filipvdr — Fri, 05 Oct 2018 08:03:28 GMT

So for example if one user loads a big dataset into a library on this LASR Analytic server, and he's going to explore this the other users on the same LASR Analytic server will "notice" this?

Does creating another LASR Analytics server for exploration solves this problem? Or do the other users still feel the workload on the complete machine created by this other user?