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SAS® Visual Analytics 6.1

Server Tier Requirements

SAS Visual Analytics Server on Linux for x64

SAS Products installed to this machine:
  • Base SAS 9.3
  • SAS Framework Data Server 2.2
  • SAS High-Performance Forecasting 12.1
  • SAS High-Performance Node Installation 1.8
  • SAS High-Performance Server 1.7
  • SAS Information Retrieval Studio for SAS 1.42
  • SAS Integration Technologies 9.3
  • SAS LASR Analytic Server 1.7
  • SAS Threaded Kernel Extension for SSH Remote Process Launching 9.3
  • SAS Threaded Kernel Extensions for Advanced Analytics 12.1
  • SAS Threaded Kernel Extensions for High-Performance Analytics 1.7
  • SAS Threaded Kernel Extensions for LASR Analytic Server 1.7
  • SAS Threaded Kernel Message Passing Interface 9.3
  • SAS Visual Data Builder Macros 6.1
  • SAS/ETS 12.1
Disk Space Consumed by Installed Products: 1119 MB
Supported Environments:
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise System 10 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise System 11 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family

SAS Information Retrieval Studio 1.42 requires Python 2.6 to 2.x for deployment. On Windows, it requires the ActiveState version of Python. On UNIX platforms, the generic version of Python is appropriate. The software is available at the following website:

http://www.python.org/psf/

SAS LASR Analytic Server on Linux for x64

SAS Products installed to this machine:
  • SAS High-Performance Deployment for Hadoop 1.6
  • SAS High-Performance Management Console 1.7
  • SAS High-Performance Node Installation 1.8
Supported Environments:
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise System 10 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise System 11 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family

Note: When Hadoop is used for storage, SAS LASR Analytic Server supports only the EXT3 and EXT4 file systems.

SAS High-Performance Analytics Grid Installation and SAS High-Performance Management Console will not run properly if Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) is enabled. Ensure that SELinux is disabled on all machines where these two products  are to be installed.

SAS High-Performance Deployment for Hadoop 1.6 is provided for co-located data storage. SAS Visual Analytics 6.1 also supports the following options, with procurement and installation by the customer:

  • Cloudera CDH 4.1
  • EMC Greenplum Data Computing Appliance
  • Teradata Data Warehouse Appliance

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 on Linux for x64

SAS Products installed to this machine:
  • Base SAS 9.3
  • SAS/CONNECT 9.3
Disk Space Consumed by Installed Products: 687 MB
Supported Environments:
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise System 10 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise System 11 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family

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 Visual Analytics Mid-Tier on Linux for x64

SAS Products installed to this machine:
  • SAS Visual Analytics Administrator 6.1
  • SAS Visual Analytics Designer 6.1
  • SAS Visual Analytics Explorer 6.1
  • SAS Visual Analytics Hub 6.1
  • SAS Visual Analytics Report Viewer 6.1
  • SAS Visual Analytics Services 6.1
  • SAS Visual Data Builder 6.1
  • Search Interface to SAS Content 2.3
Disk Space Consumed by Installed Products: 1711 MB
Supported Environments:
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise System 10 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise System 11 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family

Application Server

SAS Visual Analytics 6.1 supports the following application servers:

  • JBoss Community Edition 5.1.0 (hotfix I65002 required) 
  • JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.1.1

Client Tier Requirements

SAS Visual Analytics Clients

Please select a target environment:

Web Browsers

The list of Web browsers that SAS supports is updated as new products are tested and approved. For the latest information, visit the SAS 9.3 Support for Web Browsers and Plug-Ins page at http://support.sas.com/resources/thirdpartysupport/v93/browsers.html.

In addition, SAS Visual Analytics 6.1 requires Adobe Flash Player 11.1 or newer.


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.

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