White Papers

• Reliability, Availability, Scalability and Performance
• Configuration and Tuning
• Migration

Reliability, Availability, Scalability and Performance

• SAS® Enterprise BI Server with HP VSE Study (PDF: 443KB)
  Through Hewlett-Packard’s Virtual Server Environment (VSE) technology, resources can automatically grow and shrink based on the service-level objectives set for each application. The flexibility offers real time capacity planning based on the workload change to meet the business demands. This white paper demonstrates how the IT organization at a SAS customer site can benefit from VSE to achieve optimization on server utilization. (March 2006)
  
  
• Performance brief for SAS Enterprise BI Server 9.1.3 on HP Integrity servers, Microsoft Windows and HP StorageWorks EVA storage (PDF: 408KB)
  Enterprise customers demand a reliable Business Intelligence platform that can scale to meet their business requirements. This report demonstrates a robust 1000-user SAS Enterprise Business Intelligence (Enterprise BI) workload being executed on powerful HP servers and storage. The testing performed by both HP and SAS demonstrates that HP Integrity servers and storage deliver a dependable, scalable platform for Microsoft® Windows®-based SAS customers that are looking for an Enterprise BI solution. (January 2006)
  
  
• Manage SAS HP Workload Manager (PDF: 5M)
  Scalability and performance have become critical factors in BI implementation. The SAS9® Business Intelligence architecture is designed to deliver enterprise Business Intelligence solutions. When combined with the management and resource provisioning capabilities of HP, the result is a robust, dynamic SAS BI environment which illustrates the value of SAS integrated with the HP Adaptive Enterprise framework. (August 2005)
  
  
• Raising the bar on Business Intelligence: SAS®9 and HP Integrity® Servers (PDF: 331KB)
  HP Integrity servers provide the 64 bit compute platform that makes the difference when turning raw data into intelligence. Optimized for the HP Integrity server platform, SAS Institute launched its SAS9 Enterprise Intelligence Platform capable of delivering strategic intelligence beyond Business Intelligence. (January 2005)
  
  
• The SAS Metadata Server White Paper (PDF: 2M)
  The ability to surface metadata from one or more repositories and serve it to applications, via SAS Open Metadata Architecture, enables companies to gather and store data in multiple formats and locations without losing the ability to derive consistent business intelligence from the data. (2004)
  
  
• SAS Performance Exceeds the U.S. Census Bureau’s Expectations (PDF: 613KB)
  SAS 9 takes advantage of a number of improvements over SAS 8.2. “Tuned” for Intel architecture, SAS 9 includes support for multiprocessor threading, 64-bit architecture, large memory addressing and more. Census was interested in investigating Intel Itanium 2 microarchitecture and SAS 9.1 for Hewlett Packard HP-UX 11i. (November 2003)
  
  
• ARMing SAS Jobs On HP-UX 11.x (PDF: 317KB)
  Application Response Measurement (ARM) was introduced as a way to monitor applications and their performance. The ability to gauge the performance of applications is a key element to systems administration. Using ARM with SAS allows a systems administrator to monitor the performance of the entire job or even a single PROC step within a job. (September 2002)
  
  
• SAS® Application Performance Monitoring for UNIX (PDF: 568KB)
  In many SAS application environments, both with a dedicated SAS server as well as with multiple applications hosted on a single server, a strategy for measuring and monitoring system performance, is key to maintaining Service Level Objectives (SLOs). (June 2002)
  
  
• Hewlett-Packard Research & Development — Update58X speedup in SAS/IML® software applications for HP platforms (PDF: 42KB)
  This report presents the results of work done jointly to optimize performance for SAS computational procedures on HP systems by the researchers in SAS’ Open Systems Research and Development (OSRD) department and HP High Performance Technical Computing Division. (May 2002)
  
  
• Hewlett Packard Research and Development Update — Scaling SAS applications on the HP Superdome computing platform (PDF: 24KB)
  The focus in today’s markets is for the offering of integrated solutions, such as SAS’s Marketing Automation (MA), Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Supplier Relationship Management (SRM). For effective delivery of such enterprise -class solutions, scalability, both up and out, continues to be a growing challenge. (March 2002)
  
  
• HP Server rp7410 Sweet Spot Verification: Business Intelligence Solution (PDF: 415KB)
  Customer-focused testing reduces deployment issues by validating and documenting all major software elements necessary for a use-case scenario in a given configuration. (February 2002)
  
  
• Certifying SAS® Applications in a High Availability Environment (PDF: 201KB)
  Business globalization requires faster turnaround of reporting and analysis that are critical to the day-to-day operation of a company. HP and SAS are working to make SAS applications continuously available, 24-by-7 to meet your critical business need. (March 2001)
  
  
• Performance Gains for 64-bit SAS® Applications (PDF: 158KB)
  Large SAS applications such as those in data warehousing, business intelligence, and data mining demand best-of-breed performance in CPU speeds, system memory and disc input/output (I/O). In this update we take a closer look at how HP and SAS R&D have worked together to make performance gains for SAS applications using HP’s 64-bit architecture for HP-UX. (May 2001)

• Taking SAS® to the enterprise: Kernel configuration guidelines for SAS® on HP-UX (PDF: 475KB)
  When combining SAS into a system environment where other applications will be executing on the same server, sharing the same operating system environment, adequate care must be taken to assure there are not conflicting kernel parameters. This is especially important when dissimilar applications are hosted on the same server, such as an OLTP environment hosted with a SAS server environment. (February 2005)
  
  
• Configuring SAS on HP Integrity servers with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (PDF: 456KB)
  This white paper offers setup, installation, configuration, and tuning guidelines for SAS System software on HP Integrity servers with Red Hat Enterprise Linux – specifically, for SAS 9.1.3 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 3 with updates 1 and 2. (January 2005)
  
  
• JFS Tuning and Performance [PDF: 158KB]
  Beginning with HP-UX 10.0, Hewlett-Packard began providing a Journaled File System (JFS) from VERITAS Software Corporation known as the VERITAS® File System™. Understanding some of the key features of JFS and knowing how the applications access data are keys to maximizing performance with JFS file systems. (August 2004)
  
  
• HP-UX-SAS Software Configuration Guide for HP Servers (PDF: 797KB)
  Tuning a server for any application is not a “one size fits all”. This document is intended to be a checklist to use when setting up an HP server to run the SAS System software. It can also server as a reference guide for configuring and tuning HP servers for SAS applications. (May 2004)
  
  
• Configuration guidelines for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 on the HP Integrity servers with SAS V®9.1 (PDF: 99KB)
  The proper configuration of the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 can mean the difference between optimal and unacceptable performance for the SAS applications, therefore, sizing the system prior to its purchase is extremely beneficial. (January 2004)
  
  
• SAS® configuration and installation guidelines running on HP OpenVMS™ Alpha (PDF: 90KB)
  This document targets the SAS® System Release 8.2 and provides guidelines that help to maximize the throughput and performance of SAS software running on OpenVMS Alpha systems. (October 2003)
  
  
• Common Misconfigured HP-UX Resources (PDF: 146KB)
  Physical memory is a finite resource. It is also a shared resource, with many processes attempting to access this finite resource. Understanding how these resources are managed and how they impact memory utilization are keys to a successful configuration. (August 2003)
  
  
• HP-UX - SAS Software Configuration Guide: or Now that I have an HP-UX server and SAS Software, how do I configure it? (PDF: 35KB)
  Tuning a server for any application is not “one size fits all,” and this is no different for an HP server running SAS software. This document is intended to be a checklist to use when setting up an HP server to run the SAS System software. (September 2001)

• How to Migrate Your SAS Environment from Tru64 UNIX to HP-UX 11i on HP Integrity Servers (PDF: 164KB)
  HP is phasing out Tru64 UNIX® and the AlphaServer enterprise system line in favor of the HP Integrity server line. This marks a key trigger in the migration from Tru64 UNIX to HP-UX 11i for your SAS environment. It is important to develop a plan for migrating to HP-UX 11i on HP Integrity servers. This “How to” paper will help you plan for the migration and by explaining various “how to” techniques. (January 2005)
• SAS® conversion considerations when migrating from HP OpenVMS VAX™ to HP OpenVMS Alpha™ (PDF: 39KB)
  Moving applications from OpenVMS VAX to OpenVMS Alpha is straightforward and can be a simple process. This document identifies factors to consider and best practices for migrating SAS applications currently running on OpenVMS VAX to OpenVMS Alpha. (November 2003)