Doing some work at the moment that requires me to provide rough sizing for a new SAS hardware environment.
One of the things you may not know is that there is a group based in Carey that are responsible for doing sizing estimations for the various SAS teams around the world. They have a pretty hefty sizing questionnaire but once you have filled it out they are able to give you recommendations of what sort of hardware you will need. You will need to go through your SAS Account manager to access this service.
One of the great things this team has decided to do is to publish each sizing they do for a customer as an anonymous document. So the SAS teams are able to browse through say sizings for 4-cpu windows servers supporting SAS Enterprise Business Intelligence Server and get an idea of how many users they typically support. Great if you don’t really have a good idea of what user profile you will end up with (but obviously a little bit dangerous as well).
Again this is only accessible by SAS staff, so ask your friendly SAS Presales (Sales Consultant/Engineer depending on which part of the world you reside) to see if they can help.
There are some publicly available/publish benchmark documents for various configurations available, so I have added an article to the sasInct.com site where I can list them as I find them.
SAS Server Sizing reference Papers
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