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SAS Business Analytics Deployment on IBM POWER8 Processor-Based Systems: With IBM XIV Storage System and IBM FlashSystem

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Published on 13 October 2015, updated 26 October 2015

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ISBN-10: 0738454532
ISBN-13: 9780738454535
IBM Form #: REDP-5288-00


Authors: Beth L. Hoffman and Narayana Pattipati

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    Abstract

    This IBM® Redpaper™ publication describes the performance tuning guidelines that can help you successfully deploy SAS business analytics on IBM POWER8® processor-based servers. The paper describes the test environment, the testing that was performed, and SAS analytics performance results. The test environment includes the SAS business analytics solution running on an IBM Power System S822 (8284-22A) server with IBM AIX® 7.1 operating system and IBM XIV® Storage System Gen3 with IBM Spectrum™ Scale (formerly IBM GPFS™).

    This paper also describes the deployment of SAS analytics on IBM POWER8 processor-based servers with IBM XIV and IBM FlashSystem™ in a hybrid-storage model, along with configuration and tuning guidelines.

    Table of Contents

    Introduction

    SAS analytics deployment on IBM Power servers with XIV storage

    Workload and performance metrics details

    SAS workload performance results

    SAS analytics deployment on IBM Power servers in a hybrid-storage environment

    Overall conclusions

    Complete list of performance settings

    PURR accounting and interpreting performance results

    Resources

     

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