Creating a Fabric

Fabrics make it possible for you to create volumes, buckets, and topics in a cloud or on-premises deployment. If your organization has multiple departments or multiple use cases to support, you can create multiple fabrics.

This page describes the basic steps to create a new Fabric for any of the supported fabric providers (AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-premises).

Before Creating a Fabric

Note these considerations:
  • If you are creating your first fabric, see Installing with a Seed Node. You must use the seed node steps to create your first fabric. For all subsequent fabrics you can use the steps on this page.
  • To create a fabric, you must have fabric manager credentials. The Create Fabric button is not displayed for developer and infrastructure admin credentials.
  • Currently, only SSO users can create fabrics.
  • Always create fabrics one at a time. You cannot create multiple fabrics at the same time.
  • Creating an on-premises fabric requires that you provide host nodes before starting fabric creation. These nodes must meet certain requirements. Before creating an on-premises fabric, review Prerequisites for On-Premises Installation.

Steps for Creating a Fabric

Use the following steps to create a new fabric.
  1. Log on to the Data Fabric UI with Fabric Manager credentials.
  2. Click the All resources icon on the left pane.
  3. Select the Create fabric option from the Actions dropdown.

  4. Enter the Name.
  5. Select the cloud provider on which you want to create. Alternatively, you could select on-premise to create an on-premise fabric.
  6. Encryption for data at rest is enabled by default. Do not to turn off the setting unless required.
  7. If you wish to opt out of auto-installation of the latest available patch for your Data Fabric version on the fabric, turn off the Apply latest patch toggle. The toggle is on, by default, indicating that the latest patch for your Data Fabric version is auto-installed on the fabric, whenever HPE makes it available to you. This is an optional step.
  8. Click Next.

  9. Fill in the configuration parameters for the type of fabric you want to create:
  10. Click Next.

  11. If you wish to install EEP components, click the down arrow for Advanced Settings to view the available auto-provisioning EEP templates. Select the auto-provisioning template of your choice. This is an optional step.

    See DEP Component Installation during Fabric Creation for details about the list of auto-provisioning templates for EEP.

  12. Click Next.

  13. If you have selected an auto-provisioning EEP template where database configuration is applicable, select the appropriate option.
  14. Click Next.

  15. Review the fabric configuration.
  16. Click the pencil icon to edit any section of the configuration, if required.
  17. Click Submit.
  18. To monitor the progress of fabric creation, check the status bar in the Fabric details dialog box, or click See details. Fabric creation can take 20 minutes or more.

    If fabric creation fails, you can retry the operation. Click the ellipsis in the Action column, and select Reinitiate.

    It is possible for fabric creation to fail because of a host-name resolution issue. See Troubleshooting Seed Node Installation.

    If fabric creation continues to fail, and the failure cannot be resolved manually, contact HPE Support.

  19. When the installation status shows Installed, click the ellipsis () in the Action column, and select View endpoints. The URL for the new fabric is displayed, and you can copy the URL to the clipboard.