Chapter 1 Introduction & Overview

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Chapter 1: Introduction & Overview
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Typical Architecture Process
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Session Overview
This session will be dedicated to the topics of
Architecture Planning, Architecture Impacts with
SAS 9.2 and some established Guidances and
Best Practices. The session will be presented via a
combination of:
Presentations
Discussions
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Workshop Aim
What is the Architecture Process Context?
High Level View of the world we are working in
What is new with the SAS 9.2 software?
What is new? What has changed? How does that
impact my SAS Architecture?
What are some Best Practices & Guidances for
SAS Architectures?
Lets put it in context of established best practices for
our environment
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Workshop Agenda
Time Topic
9:00-10:00 Introduction/Overview
Hardware & Operating Environments
Break
10:00-11:00 Security, User Authentication & Authorization
Break
11:00-12:00 Metadata Server
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:00 Middle Tier
Break
2:00-3:00 Application Server
System Administration
Break
3:00-4:30 Best Practices & Guidances
Backup & Recovery
Storage & IO Throughput Sizing
Break
4:30-5:00 Discussion/Feedback
Wrap-Up
Survey
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Typical Architecture Process Context
Initial Information Obtained (the 20,000 foot view)
New or Existing Customer?
SAS 9.2 Products at play- Support, Features & Capabilities
of those Products
Third-party software
Environment Installation & Configuration Needed
(Dev/Test/Prod/DR)
Data Sources
Customers Security Infrastructure
Customers Network Capacity
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Typical Architecture Process Context
Hardware Environment Analysis
Hardware Evaluation, Server Sizing
Storage Evaluation, Capacity & IO Sizing
User Community Evaluation
Distribution of Users
Workload and Concurrency Estimations
User Interactive Workload
Non-Interactive Workload
Deployment Size & Growth Projections
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