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Reduce EBS Default Volumes

pabloanzorenac
New Contributor II

By default Databricks creates 2 volumes: one with 30GB and the other one with 150GB. 
We have a lot of nodes in our pools and so a los of Terabytes of Volumes, but we are not making any use of them in the jobs. Is there any way to reduce the volumes? I couldn't found any documentation for reducing the default ebs volumes.
Thanks

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daniel_sahal
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@pabloanzorenac 
I don't think you'll be able to do that. Clusters are pre-defined and there's no way to change a configuration of each machine.

However even if you think that you're not using them in the jobs, Spark may actually do benefit by using them (ex. for caching).

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daniel_sahal
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@pabloanzorenac 
I don't think you'll be able to do that. Clusters are pre-defined and there's no way to change a configuration of each machine.

However even if you think that you're not using them in the jobs, Spark may actually do benefit by using them (ex. for caching).

sean_owen
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee

Yes, EBS vols are essential for shuffle spill for example. You are probably using them!

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