Creating Interactive Sessions

Describes how to create interactive sessions in HPE Ezmeral Unified Analytics Software.

Prerequisites

  • Sign in to HPE Ezmeral Unified Analytics Software. See Get Started.

About this task

Create an interactive session in HPE Ezmeral Unified Analytics Software.

Procedure

  1. To start creating interactive sessions, you can choose one of the following options:
    • Click the Analytics icon and click Spark Interactive Sessions on the left navigation bar of the HPE Ezmeral Unified Analytics Software screen.
    • Click the Tools & Frameworks icon on the left navigation bar. Navigate to the Livy tile under the Analytics tab and click Open.
  2. Click Create Interactive Session in the Spark Interactive Sessions screen. Navigate through each step within the Create Interactive Session wizard:
    1. Session Configurations and Dependencies: Configure session details, Spark configurations, and dependencies. Set the following boxes:
      Name:
      Enter the session name.

      Spark Configurations: Set Spark configurations by providing key-value pairs See Spark Configurations for available configurations.

      To add additional Spark configurations required to run your session, click Add Configuration.

      Dependencies

      Type:
      Select one of the following dependency types:
      • files
      • jars
      • pyfiles
      • archives
      Value:

      Enter the file location for the dependency. For example, if the type is files, jars, or pyfiles, you could enter s3:// or local:// as the value.

      To add additional dependencies required to run your session, click Add Dependency.

    2. Driver and Executor Configuration: Configure the number of cores, memory, number of executors, number of cores per executor, and memory per executor.
    3. Review: Review the session details. Click the pencil icon in each section to navigate to the specific step to change the session configuration.
  3. To create the interactive session, click Create Interactive Session on the bottom right of the Review step.

Results

A new interactive session is created and you can view it in the Spark Interactive Sessions screen.