The SAS Metadata Server and the SAS Web Infrastructure Platform can be located on machines that use a different operating system family.
Note: If you deploy the middle tier and the server tier on dissimilar operating systems (for example, one on Linux and the other on Windows), the audit and relationship data extraction and reporting is not supported.
SAS Visual Analytics Server includes a standard SAS/ACCESS engine of choice.
SAS Information Retrieval Studio 1.5 requires Python 2.6 to 2.x for deployment.
For installation on UNIX platforms, the generic version of Python is appropriate.
For installations on Windows, either of these versions is appropriate:
If ArcGIS for Server is used as your map service, SAS Visual Analytics requires release 10.1 or later.
SAS recommends that you deploy SAS Metadata Server on a 64-bit host system. The SAS Metadata Server is multi-threaded and multi-core server hardware (typically quad core or higher is recommended). A dedicated machine for the SAS Metadata Server is recommended to simplify tuning, management, and diagnostics, but is not required. 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 8GB of RAM is sufficient for most large deployments. For many deployments, 4GB of RAM is sufficient and should be considered a minimum, unless the specific deployment is tested and verified to require less memory.
For information about the application server required to host SAS web applications, please select the link for Web Application Servers and HTTP Servers at http://support.sas.com/resources/thirdpartysupport/index.html.
The list of Web browsers that SAS supports is updated as new products are tested and approved. For the latest information, please visit the SAS 9.4 Support for Web Browsers and Plug-Ins page at http://support.sas.com/resources/thirdpartysupport/v94/browsers.html.
In addition, SAS Visual Analytics 7.1 requires Adobe Flash Player 11.1 or newer.
SAS Visual Analytics requires a minimum of 4-core commodity hardware with Intel-Xeon architecture with 16 GB of RAM per core.
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