SAS Visual Analytics and SAS Visual Statistics are designed to work together but are separately licensed.
SAS Visual Analytics and SAS Visual Statistics are available for both distributed and non-distributed SAS LASR Analytic Server deployments. These system requirements apply to both LASR deployments. The headings below indicate whether components apply to a specific LASR deployment.
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 features are not supported.
SAS Visual Analytics Server includes a standard SAS/ACCESS engine of choice.
Teradata and Greenplum must use the Embedded Process to achieve parallel loading. To use the Embedded Process, you must install the appropriate SAS/ACCESS interface engine on the server tier.
SAS Information Retrieval Studio 1.53 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 later.
The SAS Visual Statistics Server component must be installed on the same computer as SAS Visual Analytics.
SAS Visual Statistics Server includes a standard SAS/ACCESS engine of choice for transactional data.
Teradata and Greenplum must use the Embedded Process (REP) to achieve parallel loading. To use the Embedded Process, you must install the appropriate SAS/ACCESS interface engine on the server tier.
Co-located Storage:
Apache Hadoop software is distributed with SAS software as a convenience. For support information, see http://support.sas.com/resources/thirdpartysupport/ApacheHadoopSupport.html.
Note: Base SAS, SAS/ACCESS, and SAS Visual Analytics can either be installed on the head node of the commodity hardware (symmetric) or on separate hardware from the commodity hardware nodes (asymmetric). This architecture enables you to install the SAS Visual Analytics, Distributed Mode server-tier Base SAS components on Windows for x64 while working with the Linux for x64 LASR Grid.
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.
SAS Visual Analytics Mobile Clients (SAS Mobile BI) is available for Apple and Android devices via free downloads from app stores.
The list of Web browsers that SAS supports is updated as new products are tested and approved.
Note: The classic appearance also 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) on commodity hardware with Intel-Xeon architecture and 16 GB of RAM per core (256 GB total).
More information can be found on the SAS Visual Analytics product page at http://support.sas.com/software/products/va/.
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.