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 are not supported.
SAS Visual Analytics Server includes a standard SAS/ACCESS engines of choice.
SAS Information Retrieval Studio 1.5 requires Python 2.6 to 2.x for deployment. The generic version of Python is appropriate.
If ArcGIS for Server is used as your map service, SAS Visual Analytics requires release 10.1 or higher.
SAS High-Performance Deployment for Hadoop 2.4 is provided for co-located data storage. SAS Visual Analytics 7.1 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.
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.
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 7.1 requires Adobe Flash Player 11.1 or higher.
SAS Visual Analytics requires a minimum of a 4-server, 16-core environment (4 servers X 4 cores) commodity hardware with Intel-Xeon architecture, with 16 GB of RAM per core (256 GB total).
We strongly suggest working with your SAS Account Team to obtain an official hardware recommendation based on your proposed SAS workload.
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.