Performing Pre-migration Tasks

Consult Performing Pre-migration Tasks in SAS Intelligence Platform: Migration Guide.
Pre-migration tasks are as follows:
  1. Back up your current SAS deployment.
    This is a best practice to ensure that your current SAS deployment is protected.
    For more information, see Best Practices for Backing Up and Restoring Your SAS Content in SAS Intelligence Platform: System Administration Guide.
  2. Apply required maintenance to any current SAS products.
    During your migration design, you identified any current SAS products that required maintenance before you can migrate them.
    For more information, see Apply Any Required SAS Maintenance in SAS Intelligence Platform: Migration Guide. Also, see the SAS Guide to Software Updates.
  3. Complete all pre-migration checklists.
    The SAS Deployment Wizard prompts you for the required operating system accounts that you used with SAS and for ports to designate for the new SAS 9.4 servers.
    For more information, see Completing the Pre-migration Checklists in SAS Intelligence Platform: Migration Guide .
  4. Create a SAS 9.4 Software Depot.
    The SAS Software Depot contains the SAS installation files used by the SAS Deployment Wizard to install and configure SAS 9.4.
    For more information, see Creating SAS Software Depots.
  5. Create a migration package.
    Using the SAS Migration Utility, you create a package containing your current SAS data and configuration that the SAS Deployment Wizard uses.
    (Do not run the migration utility on the SAS High-Performance Analytics environment.)
    • To package SAS Visual Analytics 6.1, use smu93.
    • To package SAS Visual Analytics 6.2 and later, use smu94.
    For more information, see Create the Migration Package in SAS Intelligence Platform: Migration Guide.
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Last updated: August 1, 2017