Hi @Rama_s,
As @JuanS_OCS mentioned, to reduce the maintenance overhead of managing 2 environments you could consider a merged environment based on a single metadata server. However, I believe it is common practice to run them independantly so you can take advantage of the faster product release cycles for VA.
One of the Metacoda products Juan mentioned that might be of interest to you is a Metadata Security Testing Framework. This is a commercial product we developed to assist with managing consistent SAS metadata security across multiple metadata environments. This can be for consistency in a single environment over time, across different environments (such as dev, testing, staging, prod, BI, VA etc), and across different versions (such as for 9.3 to 9.4 migrations). Tests scripts for metadata security implementation can be generated from a source environment and then automated to test multiple target environments, generating alerts when discrepancies are detected. I presented a paper at SAS Global Forum 2014 on the concept Test for Success: Automated Testing of SAS® Metadata Security Implementations and have written some blog posts about it too e.g. SAS Metadata Security Testing and Testing Conditional Grants in SAS Visual Analytics.
If you're interested in a commercial product to help in this situation, please message me and we can discuss further.
Kind regards,
Paul
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