Note: These system requirements are for SAS Grid Manager using SAS Workload Orchestrator and SAS Job Flow Scheduler. The solution formerly known as SAS Grid Manager, which used Platform Suite for SAS, has been renamed SAS Grid Manager for Platform. Find out more about all the SAS Grid Manager products here: https://support.sas.com/en/software/grid-manager-support.html#documentation.
To keep pace with changes to third-party technologies, SAS has adopted a general policy of supporting one or more baseline major versions, subsequent minor updates, and subsequent major versions for each officially supported operating system. Only the supported baseline major versions are listed in this document. The full SAS Support policy governing third-party software can be found at https://support.sas.com/resources/thirdpartysupport/baseline_plus.html.
As part of this policy, SAS strongly encourages customers to install the latest operating-system service packs.
SAS Grid Manager Control Server requires Base SAS and SAS/CONNECT, which are not included.
SAS Grid Manager Nodes requires Base SAS and SAS/CONNECT, which are not included.
SAS Metadata Server can be deployed on the same machine as the SAS Grid Manager Control Server, or on a separate machine.
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.