If you’ve ever attended a presentation or webinar from Margaret Crevar, you know you’re in for a treat with this topic. Margaret’s extensive knowledge and experience with SAS admins makes her the perfect person to walk you through choosing a hardware infrastructure for your SAS applications. She’ll help you gain a solid understanding of all the layers and components of the SAS infrastructure.
This 22-minute video discusses important performance considerations for SAS®9 (including SAS® Grid Manager) and SAS® Viya® when hosted in any of the available public clouds—Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and so on. It also provides guidance on how to configure the cloud infrastructure to maximize performance with SAS.
Video highlights
02:00 – Before you start
04:02 – What instance type to use
09:13 – What storage type to use
15:13 – Which shared file systems to use
Related Resources
Margaret’s SASGF presentation (proceedings)
Free SAS Administration and Architecture videos
SAS Viya administration documentation
SAS 9.4 administration documentation
SAS administrator technical papers
