Before You Begin

This 10-minute tutorial shows you how to log into Oracle Big Data Cloud (BDC) and create a cluster.

This is the first tutorial in the Provisioning and Administering the Big Data Cloud series. Perform the tutorials sequentially.

•  Provisioning Oracle Big Data Cloud
• Viewing Cluster Details and Cloud Console
• Connecting to Big Data Cloud(BDC) via SSH
• Accessing Big Data Cloud Using Ambari

Background

Oracle Big Data Cloud combines open source technologies such as Apache Spark and Apache Hadoop to deliver a complete Big Data platform for running and managing Big Data Analytics applications.

Oracle Big Data Cloud leverages Oracle’s Infrastructure Cloud Services to deliver a secure, elastic, integrated platform for all Big Data workloads.

You can create Oracle Big Data Cloud clusters in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Classic. The region you chose to create the cluster determines the infrastructure. If you see the Availability Domain and Subnet fields when you select a region for the cluster you're creating, that means the cluster will be created in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Otherwise, the cluster is created in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Classic.

The cluster environment in either type of  infrastructure is essentially the same. A few differences exist in the underlying infrastructure components and in the supported capabilities.

What Do You Need?

• Subscription to Oracle Big Data Cloud
• Your Oracle Cloud user name, password, and identity domain
• Locate your account details in the New Account Information email that you received from Oracle Cloud when your user account was set up. If you don't have your New Account Information email, contact your account administrator

Create an Cluster

Perform the following steps to create a BDC cluster.

1. Sign in to Oracle My Services.
2. On the My Services Dashboard, locate the Big Data Cloud tile. Click the Action menu , and then select Open Service Console.
   Note: If this is the first time you have accessed Big Data Cloud, then you may be presented with a Welcome screen. If this happens then you can continue to the console by clicking Go to Console.
3. Click Create Service and then select the Big Data Cloud option.
4. On the Instances page, click Create Instance.

   

5. In the Create New Instance page, enter the values for the following parameters and then click Next.
   
   • Instance Name: computecluster1
   • Description: my first compute cluster
   • Notification Email: <your email>
   • Region: No Preference

   

6. In the Service Details page, provide additional configuration parameters for BDC. In the Cluster Configuration sub-section, enter the values for the following parameters:
   • Deployment Profile: Full
   • Number of Nodes: 3
   • Compute Shape: OC2m-2.0 OCPU, 30GB RAM
   • Queue Profile: Preemption On
   • Spark Version: 2.1

   

   Note: A few parameters are auto-filled. Modify as per requirement.
7. In the Credentials sub-section, enter the values for the following parameters:
   • SSH Public Key: <your ssh public key>
   • Administrative User: bdcsce_admin
   • Password: <password>
   • Confirm Password: <password>

   

   Note: A few parameters are auto-filled. Modify as per requirement.
8. In the Associations sub-section, enter the values for the following parameters and click Next.
   • Database Cloud Service: Select if required.
   • MySQL Cloud Service: Select if required.
   • Event Hub Cloud Service: Select if required.

   

9. In the Cloud Storage Credentials sub-section, enter the values for the following parameters.
   • Cloud Storage Container: <https://foo.storage.oraclecloud.com/v1/MyService-bar/MyBDC-Backup>
   • Username: <username>
   • Password: <password>
   • Create Cloud Storage Container: select if a new cloud storage container is required.

   

10. In the Block Storage Settings sub-section, enter the values for the following parameters.
    • Use High Performance Storage: Select if High Performance Storage is required.
    • Usable HDFS Storage (GB): 50
    • Usable BDFS Cache (GB): 50

    

    Note: A few parameters are auto-filled. Modify as per requirement.
11. The Confirmation page appears. Confirm your responses and click Create to create the BDC cluster.
    If you want to edit or update any parameter, click Previous to navigate back to Service Details page.

Next Tutorial

Viewing Cluster Details and Cloud Console

Want to Learn More?

•  Oracle Help Center Page for Oracle Big Data Cloud
• Using Guide for Oracle Big Data Cloud