Note
Access to this page requires authorization. You can try signing in or changing directories.
Access to this page requires authorization. You can try changing directories.
This article shows how to scale a Microsoft Fabric capacity in Azure. Scaling lets you increase or decrease the size of your capacity.
You pay pay-as-you-go hourly rates for the capacity size you scale up or down to. However, scaling below your reserved instance capacity doesn't affect your bill.
Important
When you scale a capacity across the boundary between SKUs at F256 and below and SKUs at F512 and above, in either direction, the capacity goes through a transition that can briefly interrupt it. During this transition, Fabric can cancel in-flight operations and any jobs that are currently running. Perform these resize operations during a maintenance window or a period of low activity, and rerun any canceled jobs after the resize completes.
Prerequisites
To scale your capacity, you need:
To be a capacity admin
The following Azure RBAC actions on the Fabric capacity resource:
Microsoft.Fabric/capacities/readMicrosoft.Fabric/capacities/writeMicrosoft.Fabric/capacities/suspend/actionMicrosoft.Fabric/capacities/resume/action
Create an Azure custom role scoped to these actions. The Azure privileged built-in roles also include these actions, but avoid using those roles because they grant more permissions than necessary.
For more information about Microsoft Fabric resource provider operations, see Microsoft.Fabric. To assign the custom role to the Fabric capacity resource, see Assign Azure roles using the Azure portal.
Scale a capacity
Sign in to the Azure portal.
Select the Microsoft Fabric service to see your capacities. Search for Microsoft Fabric in the search menu.
Select the capacity you want to scale. The current size for each capacity appears under SKU. When you make your selection, information about that capacity appears next to it. This information includes the current capacity scale under SKU.
Under Scale, select Change size.
Select a scale and then select Resize.
Confirm your tier by viewing the Overview tab. The current pricing tier appears.
Considerations and limitations
Scaling up a capacity that's smaller than F64 to a larger capacity happens almost immediately. The capacity license updates usually take up to a day. However, some updates might take longer. During this time, Fabric Free users might see a request to upgrade to a Power BI Pro license when they try to access a Power BI report.