HI, good day,
We had installed SAS BI 9.4 with following architecture: 1 DM Advanced (compute tier 1), 3 Metadata servers (metadata tier), 3 Web servers (mid-tier), 1 VA Node 1 (compute tier 2) , and 7 LASR servers (node 2 to node 😎 linked to VA Node 1. Total of 15 machines.
Due to lack of activities and storage considerations, we are considering to remove partial servers from service. Target servers to be removed are VA Node 1 and all 7 LASR servers. Total of 8 machines. Not sure about 3 Web servers? DM Advanced and Metadata servers are active servers.
What is the proper way to decommission of partial service? Can we just turn off servers/machine, or do I have to go thru required steps to do the following: backup, stop servers, remove configurations, remove servers, etc? Main product to be removed is SAS Virtual Analytics.
What is the consequence to remaining servers? Any prior knowledge you can share with?
Any suggestions or comments are welcomed and appreciated.
tsaop@CA