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BigDeadBadger
Calcite | Level 5

Hi All,

 

I was curious if someone could help me understand how SAS (9 or Viya) can be licensed under a docker based deployment model?

 

I'm trying to work out how a annual / CPU based license is enforced if folks are running multiple dokcer containers simultaneously.

 

Thanks in advance

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nhvdwalt
Barite | Level 11

Hi @BigDeadBadger 

 

Kindly get in touch with your SAS Account Executive since this is a commercial discussion.

BigDeadBadger
Calcite | Level 5

I did - been waiting 2 weeks for a reply

nhvdwalt
Barite | Level 11

Please message me directly....

Kurt_Bremser
Super User

Since server-based SAS is usually licensed along the number of CPU cores, the cores available on the system running the containers will be relevant. IMHO.

BigDeadBadger
Calcite | Level 5

Thanks for the reply Kurt - but I would want to understand how: 

 

If SAS is deployed inside the container (not simply code  - but the actual SAS binaries)  - SAS is abstracted from the underlying infrastructure even further (and lets assume it's probably also a VM).

 

And whilst we could limit the CPUs permitted in the container - we are at risk of running 1000 containers and going beyond a committed core count.

 

Thanks!

 

 

Kurt_Bremser
Super User

@BigDeadBadger wrote:

Thanks for the reply Kurt - but I would want to understand how: 

 

If SAS is deployed inside the container (not simply code  - but the actual SAS binaries)  - SAS is abstracted from the underlying infrastructure even further (and lets assume it's probably also a VM).

 

And whilst we could limit the CPUs permitted in the container - we are at risk of running 1000 containers and going beyond a committed core count.

 

Thanks!

 

 


That's why I think the license would go along the number of cores available to the system hosting the containers.

 

We run SAS in a dedicated LPAR on a pSeries, where the # of CPU's is set according to our SAS license.

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