Hello @Ved_Agrawal,
may I ask the purpose for that Lev2 environment? I would initially like to dis-encourage you from that idea if your Lev1 is Production and probably you should ask this question to SAS Technical Support as well, or the person who installed your Lev1 environment.
You want to install another environment together with Production (I believe to understand). While a cheap option, It does not seem to be a good idea on different ways:
- Insecure: test/development environment will be able to access data from production.
- Availability: if you apply maintenance/hotfix on Lev1 or Lev2, you need to stop both.
- Risks: if a change (i.e: maintenance, hotfix, etc) goes wrong, it will go wrong for both Lev1 and Lev1
- Feasibility: you have a hadoop installation, not sure if it will accept 2 Levels. Never tried and I will never will. But you should ask for an OK answer from SAS Technical Support in this area.
- Performance and High-Availability: you will reduce performance of your Lev1-Production environment, coming from your Lev2 one.
- Worst of all, users expectation management: I expect your users could be quickly frustrated and the environment won't match their expectations anymore, with all the deviations from your current environment status, as all the items mentioned above.
I hope it helps. I am not a discourage-r but in this case I think it would help you much more than giving you a Go and explain how you can do it.
Kind regards,
Juan
