How to Use This Guide

For business analysts, data stewards, and other users:
  • This guide, the SAS Data Loader for Hadoop: vApp Deployment Guide, documents the installation, configuration, and settings of the SAS Data Loader for Hadoop vApp on the client machine. This document also includes the system requirements for the vApp.
    Install the vApp after your system administrator has deployed the accompanying offering, SAS In-Database Technologies for Hadoop.
  • The SAS Data Loader for Hadoop: User's Guide documents how to use the product’s directives, and it shows examples of various tasks that you can perform. It also explains how to update your vApp and manage your license.
For system administrators and Hadoop administrators:
  • The SAS Data Loader for Hadoop: Administrator's Guide documents the installation, configuration, and administration of the offering, SAS In-Database Technologies for Hadoop, on the Hadoop cluster. This document also includes the system requirements for this offering.
    Note: SAS In-Database Technologies for Hadoop must be installed first and before the installation of the SAS Data Loader for Hadoop vApp in order for the vApp to communicate successfully with the Hadoop cluster.
Follow the instructions in Deploying the SAS Data Loader for Hadoop vApp to deploy the SAS Data Loader for Hadoop vApp on your desktop and play it in VMware Player Pro.
When you complete all of the deployment steps, an instance of the SAS Data Loader for Hadoop web application will be running in a virtual machine on your desktop. The application will be configured to communicate with your Hadoop cluster.
Then refer to Post-Deployment Tasks for general information about operating and managing the vApp.
To use the features of SAS Data Loader for Hadoop to interact with your Hadoop data, see SAS Data Loader for Hadoop: User's Guide.