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Providing technical tips and support information, written for and by SAS users.![SAS Grid Manager, shared-nothing storage and Hadoop: Part 1 Shared storage](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2015/01/gridstorage1.png)
When designing a SAS Grid Manager architecture, there is a requirement that has always been a critical component: a clustered file system. Over the years, vendors have released versions of these systems that are more robust and SAS has increased the minimum IO requirements, but the basic design has never changed—until now.
![When to use NFS with SAS](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/01/SAS-Administrators-1.png)
With the growing use of SAS on commodity hardware, many organizations are running lots of SAS servers on separate instances of operating system in a SAS infrastructure. This configuration is great for optimizing resources, but when these SAS servers have to share data, then SAS recommends the use of a clustered
![SAS Global Forum: I want to volunteer!](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/01/SASevents-2.png)
Most of us have volunteered in some capacity -- as a guinea pig in a magic show, as a helping hand with a charity, or perhaps as a coach for a child’s sports team. Why do we do it? I think the cliché holds true. We get as much, or
![SAS Backup and Recovery Tool List of files in SAS Backup and Recovery Tool](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2014/12/BRT1.png)
In researching material for an upcoming project, I investigated the SAS Deployment Backup and Recovery Tool available in SAS 9.4. Here are some of my findings on identifying what directories are included in a Backup and Recovery session and how to add custom directories to a backup configuration. The SAS
![SAS Global Forum: Give back, become more](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/01/SASevents-2.png)
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more. - Anthony Robbins Every year at SAS Global Forum, SAS professionals from all over the globe gather, reconnect and learn from each other. And wherever they gather, SAS Global Forum
![Exporting events from SAS Environment Manager](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2014/12/EVexport1.png)
As SAS administrators, I know you are as excited as I am by the ability of SAS Environment Manager to monitor, in detail, the performance of their SAS environments. Now, we have a robust tool to monitor, measure and report on the performance of the various SAS components. An added