Resources

System Requirements
SASĀ® High-Performance Marketing Optimization 6.3

Overview

SAS High-Performance Marketing Optimization includes the distributed version of SAS Visual Analytics Administration and Reporting. SAS Visual Analytics Administration and Reporting is required to enable the ‘Reporting Workspace’ in the CI Studio user interface.

If this component is not installed, the Reporting Workspace will not be available in your system. Reference your deployment instructions for more information.

This version of SAS Visual Analytics Administration and Reporting is supported on Linux operating systems only.

Server-Tier Requirements

SAS High-Performance Marketing Optimization Server

Please select a target environment:

SAS High-Performance Marketing Optimization Server includes the following software:

  • Advanced Computing Library
  • SAS High-Performance Marketing Optimization Cores
  • SAS/ACCESS to Hadoop
  • three SAS Metadata Bridges of choice
  • standard SAS/ACCESS engines for transaction data

SAS Visual Analytics Administration and Reporting Server (Distributed LASR) on Linux for x64

SAS Products installed to this machine:
  • Base SAS 9.4
  • SAS Visual Analytics Administration and Reporting 6.4
Disk Space Consumed by Installed Products: 294 MB
Supported Environments:
  • Oracle Linux 6.1 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise System 11 SP1 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family

SAS Visual Analytics Administration and Reporting Server, Distributed LASR includes SAS LASR Analytic Server (Distributed). SAS LASR Analytic Server (Non-distributed) is optional.

If using Hadoop, SAS Visual Analytics Administration and Reporting Server, Distributed LASR also includes a Standard SAS/ACCESS engine of choice.

SAS High-Performance Marketing Optimization Server (Distributed LASR) on Linux for x64

SAS Products installed to this machine:
  • SAS High-Performance Computing Management Console 2.5
  • SAS High-Performance Deployment for Hadoop 2.5
  • SAS High-Performance Node Installation 2.6
Disk Space Consumed by Installed Products: 1 MB
Supported Environments:
  • Oracle Linux 6.1 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise System 11 SP1 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family

SAS High-Performance Marketing Optimization Server Distributed Mode requires 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 Metadata Server

Please select a target environment:

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.


Middle-Tier Requirements

SAS High-Performance Marketing Optimization Mid-Tiers

Please select a target environment:

SAS High-Performance Marketing Optimization Mid-Tiers includes SAS Information Delivery Portal Web Application.

SAS Visual Analytics Administration and Reporting Mid-Tier on Linux for x64

SAS Products installed to this machine:
  • SAS Visual Analytics Administrator 6.4
  • SAS Visual Analytics Designer 6.4
  • SAS Visual Analytics Graph Builder 6.4
  • SAS Visual Analytics Hub 6.4
  • SAS Visual Analytics Report Viewer 6.4
  • SAS Visual Analytics Services 6.4
  • SAS Visual Data Builder 6.4
  • Search Interface to SAS Content 3.3
Disk Space Consumed by Installed Products: 2068 MB
Supported Environments:
  • Oracle Linux 6.1 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise System 11 SP1 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family

Middle Tier Java Application Server Support

The relevant Java Software Developer Kits (JDK) and the latest information and special instructions can be found on the Third Party Support Web site: http://support.sas.com/resources/thirdpartysupport/v94/jdks.html.

Web Application Servers

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.


Client-Tier Requirements

SAS High-Performance Marketing Optimization Clients

Please select a target environment:

Web Browser

SAS High-Performance Marketing Optimization is accessed via a supported web browser. The following browsers are supported and include Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer: http://support.sas.com/resources/thirdpartysupport/v94/othersw.html.

Some SAS Web applications use Adobe Flash Player to provide interactive functionality. For support see http://support.sas.com/resources/thirdpartysupport/v94/browsers.html#flash.

Presentation Virtualization Environments

Support for presentation virtualization environments (for example, Citrix) for clients included with SAS High-Performance Marketing Optimization is consistent with the SAS corporate support policy, which can be found at http://support.sas.com/techsup/pcn/virtualization.html.


Hardware Requirements

Mid-tier Machine: Minimum Recommended

Memory

The minimum recommended memory for the SAS High-Performance Marketing Optimization mid-tier is 8 GB.

Memory requirements for optimal performance may vary, and should be determined based on consultation with SAS Enterprise Excellence Center.

Disk Space

  • SAS High-Performance Marketing Optimization Application Server: 300MB above your current environment
  • SAS High-Performance Marketing Optimization Web Components: 300MB above your current environment
  • SAS Customer Intelligence Reporting: 250MB above your current environment

This is the amount of disk space that the SAS High-Performance Marketing Optimization Server setup directory requires. Additional space may also be required for new content such as campaigns and reports.

Client Application Machine: Minimum Recommended

  • Modern Intel or AMD processor running at 2.33GHz or faster
  • Memory:
    • 3 GB minimum
    • 128 MB graphical memory
  • SAS Customer Intelligence Studio 350 MB above your current environment

SAS Application Tier: Minimum Recommended

For memory and disk space requirements, see the SAS 9.4 system requirements located at http://support.sas.com/resources/sysreq/index.html, under the relevant operating system.


Third-Party Software

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.

SAS and all other SAS Institute product or service names are registered trademarks or trademarks of SAS Institute Inc. in the USA and other countries. Other brand and product names are registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective companies.
® indicates USA registration.
Copyright © 2014 SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, USA. All rights reserved.