Migrate – SAS content to AWS
Migrate Active Directory identities
Goal: Define user IDs (UIDs) and group IDs (GIDs), and configure mapping.
Tasks:
Define new UID/GID attributes for users and groups.
Map users to UIDs and security groups to GIDs.
Skills/roles: SAS consultant
Migrate Linux files, directories, and permissions
Goal: Transfer Linux files and directories, while maintaining the directory structure on AWS.
Tasks:
Transfer your existing directory structures and files to the file system on AWS. (For example, you can use FSx for Lustre
.) Make sure that the directory structure and file paths are consistent in the source and target environments to minimize code changes.
Skills/roles: SAS consultant
Migrate SAS metadata
Goal: Implement metadata security design and synchronize SAS metadata content.
Tasks:
Implement SAS metadata security design on AWS.
Synchronize users and groups from your existing corporate Active Directory, where appropriate, based on the security design.
Migrate all other SAS metadata folders and objects via export/import from your existing environment.
Skills/roles: SAS consultant
Perform post-migration validation and acceptance testing
Goal: Perform functional and system testing, sign off on the migration, and create post-migration reports. For details, see Performing Post-Migration Tasks
in the SAS documentation. Tasks:
Perform functional testing of the SAS application on AWS.
Perform system testing of SAS applications on AWS.
Prepare post-installation documentation.
Skills/roles: SAS consultant
