watsonx.data enterprise plan

IBM® watsonx.data is a data management solution for collecting, storing, querying, and analyzing all your enterprise data with a single unified data platform. It provides a flexible and reliable platform that is optimized to work on open data formats. This tutorial is a short introduction to using a watsonx.data deployment.

For more information about the developer edition of watsonx.data and watsonx.data on Red Hat OpenShift, see IBM® watsonx.data.

For more information about using IBM® watsonx.data on Cloud Pak for Data, see IBM® watsonx.data on Cloud Pak for Data.

Before you begin

You need to have an IBM Cloud account.

The access to provision IBM Cloud resources is governed by using IAM access and account management services. You must have Administrator privileges to access the resource group in which you need to create the resources.

Provision an instance through UI

Go to the IBM Cloud catalog page.
Find the watsonx.data tile and click it. You are redirected to the provisioning page.
Select the cloud platform (IBM Cloud or Amazon Web Services) you want to deploy watsonx.data.
In the Management method field, Fully managed is the default option, which indicates that IBM manages all the network complexities.
Select a location from the list of available locations for watsonx.data service.
Enter the service name. The service name can be any string. This service name is used in the web console to identify the new deployment.
Select a resource group. If you are organizing your services into resource groups, specify the resource group.
Enter a tag name.
Enter the access management tags.
Click Create.

After you click Create, the system displays a message to say that the instance is being provisioned, which returns you to the Resource list. From the Resource list, under Databases category, you see that the status for your instance is, Provision in progress.
When the status changes to Active, select the instance.

Provision an instance through CLI

ibmcloud login --sso -a https://cloud.ibm.com

Select an account on which you want to create an instance.
Create a new formation.
```
ibmcloud resource service-instance-create <instance-name> lakehouse lakehouse-enterprise <region> -g Default -p <cloud_type> '{"datacenter": ""}'`
```
- instance-name: name of the formation. For example, watsonx.data-abc.
- lakehouse-enterprise: Plan ID
- lakehouse: watsonx.data service
- datacenter: Required parameter. For example, ibm:us-south:dal, aws:us-west-2, aws:us-east-1, aws:eu-central-1, ibm:us-east:wdc, and ibm:eu-de:fra.
- cloud_type: the type of cloud environment you want to use. For Blueray service instance creation, cloud type is aws_vpc.
- Regions are eu-de, us-east, us-south and jp-tok.
Example:
```
ibmcloud resource service-instance-create watsonx.data-abc lakehouse lakehouse-enterprise us-south -g Default -p aws_vpc '{"datacenter": "ibm:us-south:dal"}'
```

Check the status of the new instance.

ibmcloud resource service-instance <instance-name>

Open the web console

Go to Resource list > Databases.
Click your watsonx.data instance link. The service instance page opens.
Click Open web console. The watsonx.data web console opens.

Next steps

To quickly get started with the watsonx.data web console by configuring the infrastructure components, see Quick start watsonx.data console.

Once you complete quick start, Resource Unit consumption begins and will be reported for billing. If you do not complete the quick start and provision support services, Resource Units are not consumed and reported for billing. If no Resource Units are consumed within seven (7) days after an instance creation, the unused instance is deleted, after which a new instance can be re-created. For more information, see Provisioning an instance.