In reply to Antony.

Thanks for your question.

Here are a few papers that are available on support.sas.com:

Virtualized Environment for SAS® High-Performance Analytics
http://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings13/459-2013.pdf

Best Practices for Data Sharing in a Grid Distributed SAS® Environment
https://support.sas.com/rnd/scalability/grid/Shared_FileSystem_GRID.pdf

A Survey of Shared File Systems
Determining the Best Choice for your Distributed Applications
https://support.sas.com/rnd/scalability/papers/SurveyofSharedFilepaper_20131010.pdf

Usage Note 42197: A list of papers useful for troubleshooting system performance problems