Add ArcGIS Data Store machines to ArcGIS Enterprise

Use the Add Data Store Machines to the site button in ArcGIS Enterprise Cloud Builder for Microsoft Azure in the following scenarios:

• You used Cloud Builder to create a single-tier ArcGIS Enterprise deployment but require a graph store or spatiotemporal big data store, which should run on separate machines from other ArcGIS components.
• After creating an ArcGIS Enterprise deployment on Microsoft Azure using Cloud Builder, you determine that your organization needs the functionality or an app that requires an additional type of data store.
• You created a deployment on Azure using Cloud Builder that includes a spatiotemporal big data store, but you need to add more machines to it to store the volume of data your apps and tools are generating.
• The ArcGIS Enterprise deployment you created on Azure using Cloud Builder has a relational data store that consists of only one machine, but you need to add a standby machine for high availability.
• You have a single-instance graph store in a deployment that you created using Cloud Builder and you need a three-machine cluster.

Follow these steps to add a type of ArcGIS Data Store to an ArcGIS Enterprise deployment, add a machine to a single-machine relational data store, add machines to the existing spatiotemporal big data store, or add two machines to the graph store:

1. Start ArcGIS Enterprise Cloud Builder for Microsoft Azure.
2. Sign in to Microsoft Azure.

   If you want to use the Microsoft Azure Government cloud and have an Azure Government subscription, check U.S. Government Cloud.

   Note:

   The account you use to connect must be assigned the following roles at a minimum:

   • The Azure Reader role at the subscription scope level
   • The Azure Contributor role at the resource group scope level if you will use resource groups that you create outside Cloud Builder

3. Choose a Microsoft Entra ID tenant, click Next, choose the Azure subscription that contains the ArcGIS Enterprise deployment to which you want to add a data store or data store machines, and click Next.
4. Click the Add Data Store Machines to the site button next to the ArcGIS Enterprise deployment name.
5. From the Machine tier drop-down menu, choose the type of data store to add to the deployment or to which you need to add machines.
6. Under Machine Administrator, type the password for the Windows login you specified when you created the other virtual machines in the deployment.

   The username must match the username used to administer the other virtual machines in the ArcGIS Enterprise deployment.

7. If the existing machines in the deployment are already using an Entra ID domain, you can add the data store machine (or machines) to the domain. To do this, click Domain join options and follow these steps:
   1. On the Domain Join Options dialog box, ensure the Join existing Windows domain option is checked.
   2. Provide the name of the Entra ID domain.
   3. Provide the username and password for the domain administrator.
   4. Click Apply.
8. Provide the username and password for the primary site administrator of the hosting server.

   You specified this information when you deployed ArcGIS Enterprise.

9. Type the username and password for the ArcGIS service account that you specified to run the ArcGIS component services in the ArcGIS Enterprise deployment.
10. Specify the number of machines to include in the data store, as well as their names and sizes.

    Graph store supports one machine or three machines. You cannot include any other number of machines in the graph store.

    An odd number of machines is recommended for spatiotemporal big data stores.

In the following example, a three-machine graph store cluster is added.



11. Click Next to proceed to the Deployment Options settings.
12. Choose or create a storage account to hold the artifacts Cloud Builder creates when adding a data store. To create a storage account, follow these steps:
    1. Provide a name for the storage account.

       Names must be unique. Click Check availability to confirm the storage account name is unique.

    2. Choose the Azure region where your storage will reside.
    3. Choose an existing resource group or create one.
    4. Choose the type of redundancy for your storage account: Geo-Redundant, Locally Redundant, or Read-Access Geo-Redundant.

       See Azure Storage redundancy in the Microsoft Azure documentation for a description of each option.

    5. Choose a storage account type from the Kind drop-down list: Storage or StorageV2.
    6. Click Create.
    7. After the storage account is created, click Close.
13. If you're adding two machines to a graph store that does not have a backup location configured, under the Graph store backup storage account location section, browse to or create a Blob Storage container to use for backups.
14. Click Next to estimate costs and view a summary of your settings.
15. Review the settings in the Summary pane. If anything needs to be changed, click Back to change the information in the Specify Machines window.
16. When all settings are correct, click Finish to add a data store to the portal's hosting server in the ArcGIS Enterprise deployment or to add machines to an existing data store.

    Tip:

    Click Save summary to save your site configuration information to a text file.

17. To add another type of ArcGIS Data Store or to add machines to an existing data store in this deployment, repeat steps 4 through 15.