I have one query that,I want to migrate windows VA server to Linux and I want checklist and procedure for that.Please give me detail and simple information as possible cause I am new in Administration(I am sas programmer but I want to know how to migrate ).
If anyone have checklist then please comment below.
Thanks in advance.
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Hi @india2016,
I could give you a quick checklist, and I will, but let me give you first the 9.4 Migration guide http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/bimig/69173/HTML/default/viewer.htm#titlepage.htm
For you to know, there are 2 main wais to migrate: partial promotion (export and import spk packages from the SAS Management Console), or the SAS Migration Utility (SMU). For VA I would recommend the partial promotion because you can remain more in control, and it is not much extra time from SMU.
In short, very short (you should read the document):
- Install SAS VA and validate the installation on Linux.
- Implement integrations with your Active Directory and other systems (as your db drivers/connections, etc).
- Migrate your SAS datasets from Windows to Unix.
- Move your SAS code.
- Ensure permissions are fine on Linux for your code and SAS datasets.
- Migrate metadata security (users, groups, ACTs, etc).Ensure your Outbound access paswwords are filled manually.
- Migrate other things as Auth Domains and deployment folders
- Migrate metadata folders (empty folders)
- Migrate server definitions (your databases, settigs of your SASApps, etc)
- Migrate your meta libraries and ensure they are attached properly to the right connections.
- Test your libraries
- Migrate your metadata table definitions for the libraries.
- Migrate custom transformations, if any.
- Migrate your jobs/ queries/deployed jobs or queries/stored processes, and report-related items, as graphs (not the reports)
- Migrate your reports
- Migrate your distribution lists
- Re-schedule your queries and test they can be loaded into LASR.
- Test your environment, and reports.
Hello @india2016,
I would understand you would like to know just about the migration part, not the installation of the new server on Linux.
For the migration: most of the VA items are just metadata, therefore they should be OS independent, like a normal promotion. If you know how to promote the metadata, you got it. If not, that is a different question. Please let us know if you need information about general promotions.
They things that are different on Linux:
Could you please explain how we make checklist for migration planning.Our migration will be done by administrator but I need to provide him checklist only.
Hi @india2016,
I could give you a quick checklist, and I will, but let me give you first the 9.4 Migration guide http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/bimig/69173/HTML/default/viewer.htm#titlepage.htm
For you to know, there are 2 main wais to migrate: partial promotion (export and import spk packages from the SAS Management Console), or the SAS Migration Utility (SMU). For VA I would recommend the partial promotion because you can remain more in control, and it is not much extra time from SMU.
In short, very short (you should read the document):
- Install SAS VA and validate the installation on Linux.
- Implement integrations with your Active Directory and other systems (as your db drivers/connections, etc).
- Migrate your SAS datasets from Windows to Unix.
- Move your SAS code.
- Ensure permissions are fine on Linux for your code and SAS datasets.
- Migrate metadata security (users, groups, ACTs, etc).Ensure your Outbound access paswwords are filled manually.
- Migrate other things as Auth Domains and deployment folders
- Migrate metadata folders (empty folders)
- Migrate server definitions (your databases, settigs of your SASApps, etc)
- Migrate your meta libraries and ensure they are attached properly to the right connections.
- Test your libraries
- Migrate your metadata table definitions for the libraries.
- Migrate custom transformations, if any.
- Migrate your jobs/ queries/deployed jobs or queries/stored processes, and report-related items, as graphs (not the reports)
- Migrate your reports
- Migrate your distribution lists
- Re-schedule your queries and test they can be loaded into LASR.
- Test your environment, and reports.
@JuanS_OCS Thank you very much for detail information.
Sir,
Could you please explain about How to Migrate our SAS datasets from Windows to Linux
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