Today most customers using PC SAS have no control over where the data resides. It may be on PC hard drives, externally attached drives (e.g. USB), personal LAN drives or anywhere else users can store data. One of the drivers for moving from a PC environment to a centralized server environment is an attempt to get control of the data and where it resides. A solution to this issue is SAS Grid Manager which allows the centralization and sharing of data.
SAS Grid Computing is an enterprise-class solution that enables SAS applications to take better advantage of computing resources. SAS Grid Manager manages the SAS workload dynamically across all nodes in the SAS Computing Grid. It provides dynamic load balancing, job prioritization and SAS job control.
It is the intent of this PC Consolidation Quick Sizing Guide to share assumptions and experiences as the number of users is increased.
Target audience: The target audience for this sizing guide is the IT community evaluating a migration to a SAS Grid environment. Business users and IT professionals who are interested in implementing SAS Grid Manager may find this sizing guide useful as a reference relating to the type and quantity of equipment needed to deploy this solution for the specified number of end users.
This white paper describes testing performed in October 2007.
