1. Log in to the Azure portal at https://portal.azure.com ➢ enter Batch accounts in the search box ➢ select Batch Accounts from the results ➢ click the + Create button ➢ select the subscription and resource group into which you want to create the Batch account ➢ enter an account name (I used brainjammer) ➢ select a location ➢ select a storage account (consider using the one from Exercise 3.1) ➢ click the Review + Create button ➢ and then click Create.
2. Once the resource is provisioned, navigate to the Azure Batch blade ➢ select Pools from the navigation menu ➢ click the + Add button ➢ enter a pool ID (I used brainwaves) ➢ select microsoftwindowsserver from the Publisher drop‐down ➢ select windowsserver from the Offer drop‐down ➢ select 2022‐datacenter‐core‐smalldisk from the Sku drop‐down ➢ select Standard A1_v2 from the VM Size drop‐down ➢ enter 2 in the Targeted Dedicated Nodes text box ➢ leave all other options as default ➢ and then click OK. Figure 6.6 illustrates an example of the configuration.

FIGURE 6.6 Azure Batch account and pool configuration

3. Navigate to the configured storage account from step 1 ➢ select the ADLS container (I used brainjammer) ➢ click the + Add Directory button ➢ enter BatchJobs as the name ➢ click Save ➢ select the BatchJobs folder ➢ click the + Add Directory button ➢ enter Exercise6.1 as the name ➢ click Save ➢ download the brainjammer‐batch.zip file from the Chapter06/Ch06Ex01 folder on GitHub at https://github.com/benperk/ADE ➢ extract the contents on your local machine ➢ edit the run.txt file (notice that the run.txt file runs the brainjammer‐batch.exe) ➢ and then update the five arguments passed to it.
   • Replace with the Azure Storage Account you created in Exercise 3.1.
   • Replace with the ADLS container you created in Exercise 3.1.
   • Replace with the path to the JSON brain wave files you want to process.
   • Replace with the path into which you want to store the batch job output files.
   • Replace with your storage account access key from the storage account you created in Exercise 3.1.
4. The following is an example of how the arguments might look. Note that the arguments are separated by a single space. The content text must be on a single line; the line is broken here due to book formatting.
   brainjammer-batch.exe csharpguitar brainjammer SessionJson/ClassicalMusic/POW

EMEA/brainjammer/in D4yx3uLjpPjEa0…==

5. Save and close the run.txt file ➢ rename the run.txt file to run.bat ➢ and then upload all the contents (16 files) to the Exercise6.1 directory you created in step 3.