To keep pace with changes to third-party technologies, SAS has adopted a general policy of supporting one or more baseline major versions and subsequent minor updates for each officially supported operating system. For example, if the baseline for SAS x is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1, SAS x will also support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 under this policy.
The full SAS Support policy that applies to third-party software can be found at https://support.sas.com/en/documentation/third-party-software-reference/baseline-and-higher.html. As part of this policy, SAS strongly encourages customers to install the latest operating-system service packs.
SAS makes the following recommendations for SAS Metadata Server deployments:
The disk I/O performance of any server-class system should be sufficient. Memory requirements are highly dependent on the product mix and usage, but 8 GB of RAM are sufficient for most large deployments. For many deployments, 4 GB of RAM are sufficient and should be considered a minimum, unless the specific deployment is tested and verified to require less memory.
When you install your SAS solution software, SAS Deployment Manager installs and configures the required web application servers and web servers.
To install these servers, select one of the supported operating systems for the middle tier.
Note: These servers cannot be installed on the z/OS or 32-bit Windows platforms.
SAS Enterprise BI Clients support SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office in 32-bit Windows installations.
SAS BI Dashboard Viewer 4.41 for HTML deploys SAS Common Components for HTML. SAS BI Dashboard Viewer 4.41 for HTML is not supported on Microsoft Internet Explorer 11. For a list of the browsers and platforms that are required only for this dashboard viewer, refer to the system requirements for SAS Common Components 9.0 for HTML.
For the latest browser requirements for all other interfaces, visit the SAS 9.4 Support for Web Browsers page: https://support.sas.com/en/documentation/third-party-software-reference/9-4/support-for-9-4-web-browsers.html.