Be cautious if you have customizations to your environment though like SAML, test thoroughly before running this against your production environment. ... View more

You should be able to do it relatively quickly, We take less than half a day for this to run. This depends on complexity and might be different if you are running a huge grid. In a development environment you can definitely test though and ensure you're accounting for what you have in parallel. We are lucky to have a DEV and VAL environment where this is thoroughly tested. That effort takes weeks for us to really make sure we are ready for that switch.    One thing to mention is for our installation for 9.4 M7, we have taken down the M7 Mid-Tier due to the huge number of security vulnerabilities associated with those components. We are glad M8 is out! ... View more

While you can upgrade in place we found it easier for us to do a brand new installation in parallel to our current environment M7 for our M8 migration.    ... View more

Hi Everyone, Just wanted to follow up (not sure what I was thinking about considering premium or ultra on the L series machine)... Anyways, we tested out the L32v3series using the NVME for work and this is what we got using the iotest script. I would say this is a huge success. Pushing  7GB/sec on the L32 right out of the box on SASWORK.        ... View more

Thanks for the recommendations!  We're on RHEL 8 so I will definitely be using that tool along with some benchmark programs I have written in SAS itself as well.  ... View more

Looks like we should actually be using the nvme drives that are already on the box. Based on the documentation we should hit some really high speeds.  What options were used by SAS when striping across the 4 nvme drives?  Settings like stripsize and readahead ... View more

Thanks! We’re aiming for 150 ... View more

Its not letting me edit above post but I think the message was clear. 😓   ... View more

I am have been able to attend this event today. Sorry to be so blunt....but I dont understand the point so far of SAS Explore. There is no opportunity to interact with the presenters at all. It feels like watching youtube videos but that's not fair to youtube. In youtube you have the can actually make comments.  Lots of awesome topics but I'm just left with more questions than answers at the end of the day.   ... View more

So while there is a transition... I see this still available? Is this 100% cancelled or transitioned to something next year?  https://conventioncalendar.com/orlando/SAS-Global-Forum--395662 ... View more

thats a bummer.. One of the best parts of SAS GF was the SAS resources on site to talk about their products. I got more useful direct information there than I would get at most of the presentations. This always positively directly impacted on how we used SAS and future plans.  I can feel the lack of these interactions as I havent been able to go now for a couple of years...  That's when you know the value ... View more