Upgradation to SAS Viya

[SAS_L]

Hello Experts,

My client is looking out to migrate from SAS on-premise to SAS Viya-cloud. I am looking out for guidance on what all steps are involved in the entire process. Any reference materials are of great help.

Thanks.

[SASKiwi]

@SAS_L - The Migration Focus Area is a good place to start: http://support.sas.com/rnd/migration/

[Anand_V]

Hi @SAS_L 

Is the on-premise SAS platform on Viya as well? If not, there will be a lot of things that you will have to be considered during migration (data and content) based on the products you are licensed as the architecture and the way SAS 9 & Viya platform works is quite different. This SGF paper is good read for Planning for Migration from SAS® 9.4 to SAS® Viya®. Also, for SAS Viya I don't think we have any migration guide like 9.4 so it will be self research. you can also engage services from SAS to advise on the requirements you have.

If you are upgrading Viya on premise from lower version (3.3, 3.4) to latest 3.5, you will have to see on what tools customer has in order to replicate the on-premise environment to cloud and then there are few steps listed in the deployment guide to upgrade. If not, the only way would be to install a new environment on cloud and plan to move content and data to this new environment.

[SAS_L]

I am looking for migration steps and process to follow from sas 9.4 M3 To sas 9.4 M6

[Anand_V]

In your first post you had mentioned SAS Viya. Anyway to migrate to a latest SAS 9.X version, there are two ways.

1) Automated way using the SAS Migration utility. you can create migration packages from your old environment and use it while Install/Configure the new SAS version. you can refer the SAS Migration Guide to plan. This method has few limitations like you need to have the same architecture and same OS family.

2) Use the partial promotion method. Install/Configure the new SAS version and then promote that content using the SAS Import/Export batch tools.