Midtier Stress Test

[shoin]

Traditional 9.4 M7 on Linux (another on WIN x64 as well)

What have folks used to do mid tier stress testing?  Topology has each (meta, comp, and mid) on their own servers.  I am just interesting in stress testing middle tier.  Any thoughts?

TIA

SH

[SASKiwi]

What SAS products and apps run on your mid-tier? You can gain a lot of insight on mid-tier performance just by monitoring via the SAS Environment Manager dashboards. If you are not using the SAS mid-tier for any significant applications like SAS Studio or Visual Analytics I can't see the point of stress testing as there nothing to stress.

[shoin]

This exercise is pre-install.  No EVM yet. 

S

[SASKiwi]

What applications are you planning to install on the mid-tier then? As I said, if you are going to use it for EVM and little else, then in my experience it won't be stressed at all and I see no point in running any stress test. 

[JeremiahBoswell · Accepted solution]

It is implied in the definition for stress testing that such testing is performed on an existing / already-deployed system. If your SAS Middle Tier software has not yet been deployed--meaning installed and configured--then doing such testing for that tier is not possible.

It sounds like you might be attempting to determine if your proposed SAS deployment will satisfy the demand that will be placed upon it by your users. You might find the following SAS Communities thread, in particular this linked response, useful: Re: SAS Sizing Questionnaire.

If you haven't done so already, you and/or your SAS Administrator should contact the SAS Account Executive for your organization. The SAS Account Executive will be able to help connect you with the team at SAS Institute that handles the sizing of SAS deployments, based on customer needs.