Important: All Windows 2008-based servers that work with SAS Model Manager must have Service Pack 1 or higher installed, or the SAS Deployment Wizard fails.
SAS Model Manager is 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.
Base SAS is required for SAS Model Manager, but it is separately licensed. SAS/STAT, SAS/IML, and SAS Enterprise Miner are recommended for SAS Model Manager, but are also separately licensed.
SAS Model Manager Server includes a standard SAS/ACCESS engine of choice (Oracle or PostgreSQL).
An additional standard SAS/ACCESS engine of choice (DB2, Greenplum, Hadoop, Oracle, SAP HANA, or Teradata) is recommended but not included.
Note: SAS Model Manager In-Database Scoring Scripts 14.1 is an optional product that is included with your SAS Model Manager license. It can be installed on another machine.
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 Visual Analytics Administration and Reporting Server includes a Standard SAS/ACCESS engine of choice for transactional data. It must match the engine that was selected for the SAS Model Manager server, or it must be separately licensed.
Teradata and Greenplum must use the SAS Embedded Process to achieve parallel loading. To use the Embedded Process, you must install the appropriate SAS/ACCESS interface engine on the server tier.
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 LASR Analytic Server (Distributed LASR) server-tier Base SAS components on Windows for x64 while working with the Linux for x64 LASR Grid.
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 most deployments, 32 GB of RAM should be considered a minimum for the middle tier.
SAS recommends deploying SAS Visual Analytics Administration and Reporting Mid-Tier server on a separate machine from the main SAS Model Manager Server.
For information about the application server required to host SAS web applications, select the link for Web Application Servers and HTTP Servers at http://support.sas.com/resources/thirdpartysupport/index.html.
One of the following platform-dependent components of Base SAS is required but not included:
SAS Visual Analytics Mobile Clients (SAS Mobile BI) are available for the Apple iPad and Android tablets via free downloads from app stores.
The list of web browsers that SAS supports is updated as new software is tested and approved. For the latest information, select the link for Web Browsers and Plug-Ins at http://support.sas.com/resources/thirdpartysupport/index.html.
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.