SAS Visual Analytics Server includes one of the following SAS/ACCESS engines:
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.
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 6.2 also supports the following options, with procurement and installation by the customer:
Apache Hadoop software is distributed with SAS software as a convenience. For support information, see http://support.sas.com/resources/thirdpartysupport/ApacheHadoopSupport.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.
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, 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 6.2 requires Adobe Flash Player 11.1 or newer.
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.