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This article describes the Microsoft Fabric capacity settings. The article is aimed at admins who want to understand how to manage their Microsoft Fabric capacities.
To get to the capacity settings, follow these steps:
In the Power BI service, select the gear icon (⚙), and then select Admin portal.
In the Admin portal, select Capacity settings.
The capacity settings page shows a list of all the capacities in your tenant. At the top of the page you can see a list of the different Fabric capacity types. Select a capacity type to view all the capacities of that type in your tenant.
Power BI Premium - A capacity that was bought as part of a Power BI Premium subscription. These capacities use P SKUs.
Note
Power BI capacities are transitioning to Fabric. For more information, see Power BI Premium transition to Microsoft Fabric.
Power BI Embedded - A capacity that was bought as part of a Power BI Embedded subscription. These capacities use A SKUs.
Trial - A Microsoft Fabric trial capacity. These capacities use Trial SKUs.
Fabric capacity - A Microsoft Fabric capacity. These capacities use F SKUs.
The rest of this article is divided to sections based on the different capacity types. To view the settings of your capacity, select the tab that matches your capacity type. If there's no tab to select, the section applies to all capacity types.
This section lists basic capacity management tasks, such as creating a new capacity, changing a capacity's name and deleting a capacity.
To create a new Trial capacity, see Microsoft Fabric trial.
You can't change a trial capacity's name.
A trial capacity is assigned to the user who signed up for the trial. You can't add or remove admins to a Trial capacity.
You can't resize a trial capacity.
When you delete a Power BI Premium, Trial or Fabric Capacity, non-Power BI Fabric items in workspaces assigned to the capacity are soft deleted. These Fabric items can still be seen in Onelake Data Hub and in the workspace list, but can't be opened or used. If the workspace that holds these items is associated to a capacity (other than Power BI Embedded) from the same region as the deleted capacity within seven days, the deleted items are restored. This seven-day period is separate from the workspace retention policy.
To delete a trial capacity, you need to cancel the trial. To cancel a trial, see End a Fabric trial.
Autoscale isn't available for Trial capacities.
After selecting a capacity, you can control its settings from these two tabs:
Details - Capacity details are settings that are specific to the capacity.
Delegated tenant settings - Tenant settings are delegated by Fabric admins to be managed by capacity admins. Changes to these settings only affect the capacity the changes are made in.
Note
Delegated tenant settings are available for Power BI Premium and Fabric capacities.
To view the settings of a specific capacity, follow these steps:
Go to the capacity settings page.
Select the capacity type your capacity belongs to.
From the capacity list, select the capacity you want to view.
This table summarizes the actions you can take in the details section.
Note
Trail capacities only have some of the settings listed in the table
Details setting name | Description |
---|---|
Disaster Recovery | Enable disaster recovery for the capacity |
Capacity usage report | The usage report is replaced with the capacity metrics app |
Notifications | Enable notification for your capacity |
Contributor permissions | Set up the ability to add workspaces to the capacity. Select one of these two options: |
Admin permissions | Give specific users the ability to do the following: |
Power BI workloads | Configure Power BI workloads for: |
Preferred capacity for My workspace | Designate the capacity as the default capacity for My workspaces |
Data Engineering/Science Settings | Allow workspace admins to set the size of their spark pools |
Workspaces assigned to this capacity | *Add or remove workspaces assigned to the capacity |
* To assign a workspace to a Fabric capacity or a capacity with an A SKU, you need to have a capacity contributor role, and a workspace admin role.
Delegating admin settings can be used to grant granular access to features in the capacity. The delegated tenant settings section lists these tenant settings:
Workload management tenant settings that are automatically delegated to the capacity.
Tenant settings delegated by the Fabric Admin.
By default, delegated tenant settings inherit their configuration from the tenant. To override this configuration, follow the steps below. When the tenant setting delegation is enabled, you can disable delegation by clearing the Override tenant admin selection checkbox.
From the Delegate tenant setting list, open the setting you want to delegate permissions for.
Select the Override tenant admin selection checkbox.
Select Enabled
In the Apply to section, select one of the following options:
All the users in capacity - Delegate the setting to all the users in the capacity.
Specific security groups - Apply the setting to specific security groups. Enter the security groups you want to apply the setting to.
To exclude specific security groups from the setting, select Except specific security groups and enter the security groups you want to exclude. This setting is optional and can be used with together with the Apply to setting.
Select Apply.
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