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 products here: SAS Grid Manager.
This document has been updated to reflect the requirements to deploy this SAS software along with SAS 9.4M9 (TS1M9), which was generally available in 2025.
To keep pace with changes to third-party technologies, SAS has adopted a general policy of supporting one or more baseline major versions and subsequent minor updates for each officially supported operating system. As part of this policy, SAS strongly encourages customers to install the latest operating-system service packs. Only the supported baseline major versions are listed in this document.
The full SAS Support policy governing third-party software can be found at SAS Third-Party Software Requirements - Baseline and Later Support.
Third-party anti-virus, anti-spyware, endpoint-protection, and system-monitoring software can interfere with SAS applications and can block files. For more information about the official guidance from SAS Technical Support, see the Anti-Virus section of the SAS Foundation System Requirements document that corresponds to the operating system where you are deploying SAS.
SAS Grid Manager requires a shared file system. This file system must be accessible to all the SAS Grid compute nodes.
SAS Grid Manager Control Server requires Base SAS and SAS/CONNECT, which are separately licensed.
SAS Grid Manager Nodes requires Base SAS and SAS/CONNECT, which are separately licensed.
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.
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.