SAS High-Performance Customer Link Analytics Server includes the following servers. Click on the links to see the system requirements on the Install Center.

• SAS Data Integration Server (http://support.sas.com/documentation/installcenter/en/iketlsrvofrsr/67833/HTML/default/index.html)
• SAS Enterprise BI Server (http://support.sas.com/documentation/installcenter/en/ikbientsrvofrsr/66645/HTML/default/index.html)
• SAS Enterprise Miner Server (http://support.sas.com/documentation/installcenter/en/ikdminesr/67828/HTML/default/index.html)

SAS High-Performance Customer Link Analytics Server includes two standard SAS/ACCESS engines of choice, three SAS Metadata Bridges of choice, plus General Industry Standards which is included automatically.

SAS Visual Analytics Administration and Reporting Server includes a standard SAS/ACCESS engine of choice.

Note: Both the Distributed and Non-distributed LASR versions of SAS Visual Analytics Administration and Reporting Server include a Non-distributed SAS LASR Analytic Server.

However, only the Distributed LASR version of SAS Visual Analytics Administration and Reporting Server includes the Distributed SAS LASR Analytic Server.

SAS High-Performance Analytics Server (Distributed LASR) requires Teradata (appliance obtained from vendor) or Hadoop (commodity hardware).

Apache Hadoop software is distributed with SAS software as a convenience. For support information, see http://support.sas.com/resources/thirdpartysupport/ApacheHadoopSupport.html.

SAS High-Performance Customer Link Analytics contains the SAS data server SAS Customer Link Analytics Data Server, which requires additional configuration.

The size of the data server is small.

Note: When you configure your software, the size of each data server must be considered.

Before you install, update, or add products and solutions that result in the deployment of one or more SAS data servers to the same machine, kernel parameter changes for shared memory and semaphores are required. For details about configuration of small, medium, and large data servers, see the section “Tuning the PostgreSQL Data Server“ in the guide SAS 9.4 Web Applications: Tuning for Performance and Scalability, Second Edition. at http://support.sas.com/documentation/onlinedoc/intellplatform/tabs/admin94.html

SAS makes the following recommendations for SAS Metadata Server deployments:

• a 64-bit host system
• a dedicated machine to simplify tuning, management, and diagnostics
• multi-core server hardware because SAS Metadata Server is multi-threaded
• four or more cores for production 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 Visual Analytics Mobile Clients (SAS Mobile BI) are available for the Apple iPad and Android tablets via free downloads from app stores.

The list of web browsers that SAS supports is updated as new software is tested and approved. For the latest information, please select the link for Web Browsers and Plug-Ins at http://support.sas.com/resources/thirdpartysupport/index.html.