enabled the unity catalog having Premium subscription

[Vivek_Singh]

Hello All,

I am using Premium subscription and have admin access in workspace, however I am not able to get the option to create metastore for unity catalog

[Ajay-Pandey]

Hi @Vivek Singh Banafar​ ,

You need to be admin at subscription level for enabling the Unity Catalog.

Have you checked your permissions?

[Vivek_Singh · Accepted solution]

Hello Ajay, I checked with my permission I have admin access, to create metastore we need global admin access. ideally it should be part of admin only

[Anonymous]

Hi @Vivek Singh Banafar​ 

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[Vivek_Singh]

Hello @Vidula Khanna​ , the challenge part to enable the metastore we require global admin access, Workspace admin access would work. thanks

[Kaniz]

Hi @Vivek Singh Banafar​, The requirements are:-

• You must be an Azure Databricks account admin.

• The first Azure Databricks account admin must be an Azure Active Directory Global Administrator when logging in to the Azure Databricks account console. Upon first login, that user becomes an Azure Databricks account admin and no longer needs the Azure Active Directory Global Administrator role to access the Azure Databricks account. The first account admin can assign users in the Azure Active Directory tenant as additional account admins (who can assign more account admins). Other account admins do not require specific roles in Azure Active Directory.

• Your Azure Databricks account must be on the Premium plan.

• In your Azure tenant, you must have permission to create the following:
  • A storage account to use with Azure data lake Storage Gen2. See Create a storage account to use with Azure data lake Storage Gen2.
  • A new resource to hold a system-assigned managed identity. This requires that you be a Contributor or Owner of a resource group in any subscription in the tenant.

This article provides step-by-step instructions for setting up Unity Catalog for your organization. It describes how to enable your Azure Databricks account to use Unity Catalog and how to create your first tables in Unity Catalog.

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