“Ask the Expert” webinar on August 4th, The Basics of SAS® Viya®4 Administration

[abbala]

Hello SAS Admins:

I’m presenting a live “Ask the Expert” webinar on August 4^th, 11 AM – Noon ET entitled The Basics of SAS® Viya®4 Administration. I’ll cover the SAS Viya 4 architecture, the Kubernetes method, and how Viya 4 is different from previous releases of SAS. I’ll also demonstrate the key concepts for successfully administering Viya 4. Bring your questions. I’ll host a live Q&A session at the end of the webinar.

You will learn:

• IT skills required for Viya 4 administration.
• The basics of containers and Kubernetes.
• About Viya 4 deployments.
• Logging and monitoring.
• Stopping and starting.

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[touwen_k]

my question is how cas is loading the tables into memory? I am trying to load 3 tabels which are on nfs share but I have made caslib for that. The tables have old SA4 9.4 extension and not SAShdat. All 3 tables require disc space of 180GB. Is cas dupplicating the tables on every node? Is cas when loading to memory using also cas cache because the extension is different than SAShdat? My cas cache is still on empty dir.  I would appreciate a lot to have answers to these questions. Thank you Karolina

[abbala]

Q: Is cas duplicating the tables on every node?

A: CAS partitons the data to spread is across CAS nodes. By default, it makes a single replicate copy, also partitioned across the nodes, such that each node would have two unique partitions. If a CAS node were to go down, this allows processing on the data to continue, because a copy of that CAS node’s data partition would be located on another node. The number of replicate copies is configurable using the copies= option on the LOAD statement of PROC CASUTIL.

Q: Is cas when loading to memory using also cas cache because the extension is different than SAShdat?

A: The way that the SAS Viya Cloud Analytic Services (CAS) Server manages data in memory is a complicated topic – the two links below are handy references. In general, for *.sas7bat, cas-cache will be used.

4 Rules to Understand CAS Management of In-Memory Data

Directing CAS when to use its cache (or not)

Loading Data Using Graphical User Interface

The easiest way to load files that are already in a caslib is within the GUI. Use the Manage Data option in the application menu.

Navigate to Data Sources and then to the CASLIB of interest.

Click on the table that is to be loaded into CAS and click the lightning bolt in the upper right hand corner.

Loading Data Using SAS Code

If SAS code is a preference, below is an example that demonstrates loading a sas7bdat file to a CAS library and promoting it so that it is available to other CAS sessions, while also controlling the number of replicate copies (default is copies=1).

* Start a CAS session called mySession;

cas mySession sessopts=(caslib=casuser timeout=1800 locale="en_US" );

*Generate SAS librefs for caslibs;

caslib _all_ assign;

*Define a SAS libref where files SAS datasets are stored;

libname mydata "/nfs/Data/";

*load to CAS (CASUSER or other CASLIB) and promote;

proc casutil;

  load data=mydata.modeldata

      outcaslib="CASUSER"

      casout="ModelData" promote copies=1;

run;

[touwen_k]

thank you very much for your answer. I am reading now all the articles and I will add in my code the number of copies equal to 1.