Creating a Database in Eon Mode

Creating a Database on Eon Mode for Cloud Storage

If you deployed MC on Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources using a CloudFormation Template, MC provides a step-by-step wizard allowing you create a Vertica cluster and database.

You will provision new Vertica clusters in the same VPC and subnet as the Vertica Management Console instance. Using the wizard, you can create an initial cluster of up to 60 hosts.

Note: To provision a new database and cluster on-premise, see Creating a Cluster Using MC in the Installation Guide. Go to the steps in the Installation Guide if you installed MC using an RPM.
  1. On the MC home page, click Create a New Vertica Database Cluster. The creation wizard appears in a new dialog.
  2. Choose a mode for your database: Eon Mode or Enterprise Mode. Note that you cannot switch the mode on your database after creation.

  3. Follow the cluster creation wizard and enter the parameters for your new cluster and database. You will use the authentication method you selected in the Cloudformation Console when launching MC with Provisioning.

    If you choose Enterprise Mode, the wizard offers two paths:

    • Quick Create provides default values during cluster creation.
    • Custom Create allows you to specify EC2 instance types and other AWS resources for your Vertica cluster instances.

  4. After confirming the details you have provided for your new cluster, click Create. The dialog shows you the progress of the creation process, which takes a few minutes. (You can leave or close the browser during this process; to return to this progress window, select Create a New Vertica Database Cluster on the home page.)

    During Eon Mode database creation, use an existing Amazon S3 bucket in the same region as your instances for your communal storage location. You must also specify a new, nonexisting subfolder name, which Vertica will then dynamically create within the existing S3 bucket. Use a format beginning with s3://. For example, s3://existingbucket/newsubfolder1.

  5. The dialog displays a success message when the creation process completes. Click Get Started to view the Fast Tasks page.

View your new database any time under the Available Databases section of the Management Console home page. See Managing Database Clusters for more about further managing your cluster, instances, and database using MC.

Creating a Database on Eon Mode for On-Premise Storage

See Step 5: Create the Eon on Premise Database.