SAS^® Workload Management

SAS^® Workload Management Features

Flexible infrastructure

Decouples the computing infrastructure requirements from applications to allow business users to focus on their processes.
Allows nodes to be taken offline without disrupting the business.
Allows you to add computing resources incrementally to cost-effectively accommodate a growing number of users, as well as meet increased business needs.
Improves performance and scalability through the use of Kubernetes running on supported cloud infrastructures.

Applies Workload Management policies to workloads submitted for execution on SAS Viya Compute Servers.
Provides workload load balancing for SAS Viya Compute Servers, prioritizing and improving throughput, response times and efficiency.
Allows for SAS jobs that are preempted to be restarted.
Enables many SAS solutions and user-written programs to be easily configured for submission to a cluster of shared resources.
Includes a parameter on the batch plug-in for the SAS Viya command-line interface (CLI) that specifies a Workload Management queue.

Identifies compute server nodes eligible for hosting pods to run SAS workloads based on node capacity, processing load and permitted usage.
Allows administrators to define queue parameters to establish rules and policies that best service workloads submitted to nodes for execution.
Provides tenant-based job, queue, host and user management across SAS Viya nodes.
Ensures that there always exist at least one Workload Orchestrator manager available and that a Workload Orchestrator daemon set is running on each compute node.
Includes the SAS Workload Orchestrator plug in to the SAS Viya command-line interface (CLI) to perform Workload Management monitoring and management tasks.