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 6.1, SAS x will also support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 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.
Base SAS and SAS/STAT must be installed on the server to supply SAS Enterprise Miner licenses. They are separately licensed.
All server-tier machines require a minimum of 4 GB of memory plus 2 GB for each concurrent user.
SAS Enterprise Miner requires an instance of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE), which is provided by SAS and installed by the SAS Deployment Wizard. For more information, see https://support.sas.com/en/documentation/third-party-software-reference/9-4/support-for-java.html.
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.
All middle-tier machines require a minimum of 8 GB of memory.
SAS Enterprise Miner requires an instance of the JRE on the middle tier, which is provided by SAS and installed by the SAS Deployment Wizard. For more information, see https://support.sas.com/en/documentation/third-party-software-reference/9-4/support-for-java.html.
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.
All client tier machines require a minimum of 4 GB of memory.
SAS Enterprise Miner requires an instance of the JRE on the client tier, which is provided by SAS and installed by the SAS Deployment Wizard. For more information, see https://support.sas.com/en/documentation/third-party-software-reference/9-4/support-for-java.html.
The minimum memory requirement for SAS Enterprise Miner Thin Clients is 2 GB, but 4 GB are recommended.
Note: Java Web Start can be used to access the SAS Enterprise Miner application. Java Standard Edition version 8 is supported to launch SAS Enterprise Miner using the Java Web Start client. JRE 1.7 or later must be installed on the client machine.
The list of web browsers that SAS supports is updated as new software is tested and approved. For the latest information, see https://support.sas.com/en/documentation/third-party-software-reference/9-4/support-for-9-4-web-browsers.html.
SAS software may be provided with certain third-party software, including but not limited to open-source software, which is licensed under its applicable third-party software license agreement. For license information about third-party software distributed with SAS software, refer to http://support.sas.com/thirdpartylicenses.