Unity Catalog

[RC]

Hi Team, 

Where is the unity catalog placed? I know that it's attached to workspace. Is it some kind of VM? Where is it hosted?

I'm able to access Unity catalog even though the clusters are down.

BR,

RC

[Aviral-Bhardwaj]

https://accounts.cloud.databricks.com/login , it will available here

[msserpa]

You can login on your workspace and then go to data

[Maciej]

Unity Catalog can be attached to multiple workspaces within single location, which gives the power underneath. It works on dedicated VMs, which work is same network as your workspace, so whenever you work under defined vnet, you need to whitelist in your storage.

[OlivierAllovon]

Unity Catalog is more part of the control plane hence work even if your cluster are not active.
Your workspace can be attached to a Unity Catalog metastore or a Hive Metastore(legacy).
As explained in previous response the data pane is where you could browse the Unity Catalog Metastore seeing all the Catalogs/schemas/Objects you are allowed to see.

The data and metadata attached to the Unity Catalog are physically hosted by default in a storage location defined at the creation of the metastore. This default storage can be override for each layer of the metastore (catalog, schema and objects).