Instructor: To create an Azure Data Lake Storage
Gen2-enabled storage account,
you're going to need a resource group
that's going to act as the logical container
for your storage account
or any of your other Azure resources.
I've already created a resource group
called AzureCourse here.
To take advantage of Data Lake Storage Gen2 features,
we're going to need to create a storage account
as a StorageV2 type.
Essentially, it's a general-purpose V2 storage account.
When we name our storage account,
we need to make sure that the name
is between three and 24 characters,
and it's gotta be unique across the entire Azure landscape.
So as you can see here,
I'm in my resource group that I provisioned earlier,
and what we're going to do
is deploy our Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2-enabled
storage account within this resource group.
To create our new Data Lake Gen2-enabled storage account,
we simply click Add up here at the top
to create a new resource,
and then, we search for storage accounts.
After selecting the Storage account option
in the list of results,
we have to deploy an actual storage account.
Don't be tempted to select the Data Lake option
because as you can see here,
this Data Lake option is for Gen1.
We're deploying a Gen2-enabled storage account,
so we'll go ahead and click to deploy a storage account.
After selecting the Storage account option,
we can simply go ahead and click Create
to begin the deployment of the storage account.
We need to select the Subscription and Resource group
that we're going to deploy our new storage account to.
In this demonstration, we're going to deploy to
our Pay-As-You-Go subscription,
and in our AzureCourse resource group
that we deployed earlier.
I'm going to give my storage account a unique name here.
Again, this needs to be unique across
the entire Azure landscape,
and for this demonstration,
I'm going to deploy to the West US 2 location.
When deploying our storage account,
that's going to be Data Lake Storage Gen2-enabled,
we can leave Performance, Account kind, Replication,
and Access tier options at their default values.
We just want to ensure
that we have the right subscription selected,
and then, we can click Next: Advanced.
We can leave the values under Security and Virtual Networks
set to their default options,
but in the Data Lake Storage Gen2 Preview section,
we need to turn on Hierarchical namespace
by setting it to Enabled.
After doing so, we simply click Review and create
to create the new storage account.
When it completes, the new Data Lake Storage Gen2-enabled
storage account is now provisioned.