Planning for the Worst—SAS ® Grid Manager and Disaster Recovery

Many companies use geographically dispersed data centers running SAS® Grid Manager to provide 24/7 SAS® processing capability with the thought that if a disaster takes out one of the data centers, another data center can take over the SAS processing. To accomplish this, careful planning must take into consideration hardware, software, and communication infrastructure along with the SAS workload. This paper looks into some of the options available, focusing on using SAS Grid Manager to manage the disaster workload shift.