Replying to myself here - but it looks like HPENG across multiple physical hosts is way beyond just setting a couple of switches/options statements. Appears to be dependent on: having MMP based .sas code files from SAS - which we don't have SAS Grid - appears to be a pointer within the HPENG code that tells it what hosts to run on via a var/macro Distributed database system hosting the data - such as Hadoop.   Guess I am out of luck for testing it without a significant re-architecture of our existing platform sadly. ... View more

Can you put a shared file system that both SAS infrastructures can access?  That is all that is needed for READ only access to the files.    SAS/SHARE should only be used if you are needed for both SAS infrastructures to update the files at the same time. ... View more

There is one situation where this is common practice and that is where there is an identical Disaster Recovery copy of your SAS server environment and you want to keep your DR metadata in synch with Production. In this case the SAS server setup is identical so it is quite OK to copy metadata even just using file copies. We do this daily in our SAS environment. ... View more