Target group
SAS administrators and system administrators who are responsible for managing and maintaining a SAS Grid Manager environment with SAS Workload Orchestrator
Course structure
What Is Grid Computing?
- SAS 9 Platform and Grid overview.
- Introduction to SAS Grid Architecture.
- Understanding and managing the SAS Workload Orchestrator Daemon.
- How a shared file system is used in a grid environment.
Configuring the Grid with SAS Workload Orchestrator
- Configuring administrators, security, and time-based configurations.
- Assigning hosts to queues for execution of jobs to the queue.
- Setting priorities on queues so that higher priority jobs are executed first.
- Allowing jobs to preempt running jobs from other queues.
- Defining Master hosts.
- Dynamically adding hosts to the grid.
- Setting up groups to control access to the grid.
- Defining resources for use in assigning jobs to hosts or determining whether to suspend/resume a job.
Additional Configuration with SAS Workload Orchestrator
- Create time-based queues.
- Using command line interfaces (CLI).
- Making a server highly available.
- Utilizing grid options sets and grid tags.
