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System Requirements
SAS® Life Science Analytics Framework 5.3

Server-Tier Requirements

SAS Life Science Analytics Framework Server on Linux for x64

Note: SAS Life Science Analytics Framework supports SAS version: 9.4M7.

SAS Products installed on this machine:
  • Base SAS 9.4
  • SAS Clinical Standards Toolkit 1.7
  • SAS Integration Technologies 9.44
  • SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC Files 9.4
  • SAS/CONNECT 9.4
  • SAS/GRAPH 9.4
  • SAS/IML 14.3
  • SAS/STAT 14.3

Disk Space Consumed by Installed Products: 356 MB
Supported Environments:
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family

SAS Life Science Analytics Framework Server includes SAS Clinical Standards Toolkit. For information about the requirements for SAS Clinical Standards Toolkit, please see its system requirements document.

SAS Life Science Analytics Framework File Access on Windows

SAS Products installed on this machine:
  • Base SAS 9.4
  • SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC Files 9.4
  • SAS/CONNECT 9.4

Disk Space Consumed by Installed Products: 809 MB
Supported Environments:
  • Windows 10 (32-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Windows 10 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Windows 10 on the x86 chip family
  • Windows 7 Enterprise (32-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Windows 7 Enterprise (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Windows 7 Professional (32-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Windows 7 Professional (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Windows 7 Ultimate (32-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Windows 7 Ultimate (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Windows 8 (32-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Windows 8 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Windows 8 Enterprise (32-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Windows 8 Enterprise (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Windows 8 Pro (32-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Windows 8 Pro (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Windows 8.1 on the x86 chip family
  • Windows 8.1 Pro on the x86 chip family
  • Windows Server 2008 Datacenter Edition (32-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Windows Server 2008 Datacenter without Hyper-V Edition (32-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition (32-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Windows Server 2008 Enterprise without Hyper-V Edition (32-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Windows Server 2008 Foundation Edition (32-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Windows Server 2008 Small Business Server (32-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition (32-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Windows Server 2012 Datacenter Edition (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Windows Server 2012 Essentials Edition (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Windows Server 2012 Foundation Edition (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Windows Server 2012 Standard Edition (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family

SAS Life Science Analytics Framework File Access Server includes SAS Life Science Analytics Framework File Access.

SAS Life Science Analytics Framework File Access is optional.

SAS Metadata Server on Linux for x64

SAS Product installed on this machine: Base SAS 9.4
Disk Space Consumed by Installed Products: 294 MB
Supported Environments:
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family

SAS makes the following recommendations for SAS Metadata Server deployments:

  • a 64-bit host system
  • a dedicated machine to simplify tuning, management, and diagnostics
  • multi-core server hardware because SAS Metadata Server is multi-threaded
  • four or more cores for production 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.


Middle-Tier Requirements

SAS Life Science Analytics Framework Mid-Tier on Linux for x64

SAS Product installed on this machine: SAS Life Science Analytics Framework Mid-Tier 5.3
Supported Environments:
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family

Refer to the Web Browsers section in the Client-Tier for supported browsers and platforms.

Web Application Servers

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.


Client-Tier Requirements

SAS Life Science Analytics Framework Clients on Microsoft Windows for x64

SAS Product installed on this machine: SAS Management Console 9.4
Disk Space Consumed by Installed Products: 232 MB
Supported Environments:
  • Windows 10 (32-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Windows 10 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Windows 10 on the x86 chip family
  • Windows 7 Enterprise (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Windows 7 Professional (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Windows 7 Ultimate (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Windows 8 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Windows 8 Enterprise (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Windows 8 Pro (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Windows 8.1 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Windows 8.1 Pro (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Windows Server 2008 Datacenter Edition (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Windows Server 2008 Datacenter without Hyper-V Edition (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Windows Server 2008 Enterprise without Hyper-V Edition (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Windows Server 2008 Foundation Edition (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter Edition (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Windows Server 2008 R2 Foundation Edition (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard Edition (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Windows Server 2008 Small Business Server (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Windows Server 2008 Standard without Hyper-V Edition (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Windows Server 2012 Datacenter Edition (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Windows Server 2012 Essentials Edition (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Windows Server 2012 Foundation Edition (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter Edition (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials Edition (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Windows Server 2012 R2 Foundation Edition (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard Edition (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Windows Server 2012 Standard Edition (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Windows Server 2016 Datacenter with Desktop Experience (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Windows Server 2016 Essentials Edition (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Windows Server 2016 Standard with Desktop Experience (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family

Specific Product Requirements

Databases

SAS Life Science Analytics Framework 5.3 is compatible and can connect to the following database:

  • Oracle 19c

Web Browsers

SAS Life Science Analytics Framework does not support Firefox, Internet Explorer, or pre-Chromium Edge Web Browsers.

Supported Web Browsers include: Safari Web Browser for some administrative functions, Google Chrome (76.0 and later), and Microsoft Edge on Chromium (84.0 and later).


Third-Party Software

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.

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