Visual Analytics LASR vs Visual Analytics Public LASR - How do you know when to use each?

[rgreen33]

I am new to SAS and I am trying to get my environment setup for our end users.  I attend a couple admin classes back some time ago, before our system install was actually complete - so, I didn't really know what questions to ask at the time.  Looking at our system, I see that we have the following Data Libraries - Visual Analytics LASR and Visual Analytics Public LASR (and we have similar for HDFS).  My question is...which one do you use and under what circumstances?

Thanks,

Ricky

[rogerjdeangelis]

Hi Ricky

 You may want to get some user requirements. If you can provide what the users need we may be able to help.

1. Are your users non-programmers

2. Development programmers who can use a local power workstation/laptop for development

3. Ahhoc or development and not Big Data(single table temp or perm>1TB) or Big Computation (8hr jobs requireing 32+ cores)

My understanding is that VA is not Big Data in memory (>1TB)

[rgreen33]

Most of my Report/Dashboard designers will be using DataBuilder, EG, and VA Designer.  Then, I will have users (non- designers/developers) consuming the Reports/Dashboards.  We may expose some Reports/Dashboards via the web, allowing anonymous access.

Does that help?

Thanks,

Ricky

[SASKiwi · Accepted solution]

I suggest reading the VA Admin documentation will aid your understanding especially since it is now publically available:

https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Visual-Analytics/SAS-Visual-Analytics-Administration-Documentatio...

[rgreen33]

Great document. Thanks for the suggestion.

[AhmedAl_Attar]

Hi Ricky,

Consider/Use Public Laser for Public/Open data that everybody (Internal & External) can access. Your external consumers could access the VA reports and dashboards via the guest url (http://host/SASVisualAnalyticsHub/guest.jsp).

Your regular LASR would be used for you internal users with their imposed Security Access Controls, permissions, ...etc.

*Just a side note, depending on the size of your installation, if you have RAM >TB cofigured for your installation, you will be able to load Big data into your LASR Analytical Server.

Hope this help,

Ahmed