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Storage Account Details

Choose to configure access to one of the following storage types:

Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS). See Azure documentation.

An Azure Storage Account, known as general or blob storage. See Azure documentation.

The following table describes the information you need to configure Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) with the HDInsight cluster:

Property	Description
Azure Data Lake Store Name	Name of the ADLS storage to access. The ADLS storage and the cluster to create must reside in the same region.
Data Lake Service Principal Client ID	A credential that enables programmatic access to ADLS storage. Enables the Informatica domain to communicate with ADLS and run commands and mappings on the HDInsight cluster. The service principal is an Azure user that meets the following requirements: Permissions to access required directories in ADLS storage. Certificate-based authentication for ADLS storage. Key-based authentication for ADLS storage.
Data Lake Service Principal Certificate Contents	The Base64 encoded text of the public certificate used with the service principal. Leave this property blank when you create the cloud provisioning configuration. After you save the cloud provisioning configuration, log in to the VM where the Informatica domain is installed and run infacmd ccps updateADLSCertificate to populate this property.
Data Lake Service Principal Certificate Password	Private key for the service principal. This private key must be associated with the service principal certificate.
Data Lake Service Principal Client Secret	An octet string that provides a key associated with the service principal.
Data Lake Service Principal OAUTH Token Endpoint	Endpoint for OAUTH token based authentication.

The following table describes the information you need to configure Azure General Storage, also known as blob storage, with the HDInsight cluster:

Property	Description
Azure Storage Account Name	Name of the storage account to access. Get the value from the Storage Accounts node in the Azure web console. The storage and the cluster to create must reside in the same region.
Azure Storage Account Key	A key to authenticate access to the storage account. To get the value from the Azure web console, select the storage account, then Access Keys. The console displays the account keys.