Manage your Fabric capacity

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.

Get to the capacity settings

To get to the capacity settings, follow these steps:

1. In the Power BI service, select the gear icon (⚙), and then select Admin portal.

2. In the Admin portal, select Capacity settings.

View your capacity

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.

Manage your capacity

This section lists basic capacity management tasks, such as creating a new capacity, changing a capacity's name and deleting a capacity.

Create a new capacity

Power BI Premium

To create a new Power BI Premium capacity, follow these steps:

1. In the Capacity settings page, select Power BI Premium.

2. Select Set up new capacity.

3. In the Set up a new capacity page, enter the following information:

   • Capacity name - Give your capacity a name.

   • Capacity admins - Add capacity admins.

   • Region - Select the region you want to create the capacity in.

   • Available v-cores - Select the number of v-cores you want to use for the capacity.

   • Capacity size - Select the size of the capacity.

     Note

     If you select an EM size, you'll create a Power BI Embedded capacity.

4. Select Create.

Power BI Embedded

You can create a new Power BI Embedded capacity with an A SKU or an EM SKU.

Create a new Power BI Embedded capacity with an A SKU

To create a new Power BI Embedded capacity with an A SKU, follow these steps:

1. Log into Azure and search for Power BI Embedded.

2. Select Create.

3. In the Basics tab, enter the following information:

   • Subscription - Select the Azure subscription you want to use for the capacity.

   • Resource group - Select the Azure resource group you want to use for the capacity.

   • Resource name - Give your capacity a name.

   • Location - Select the region you want to create the capacity in.

   • Size - Select the size of the capacity.

   • Power BI capacity administrator - Select the capacity admins.

4. Select Review + create.

5. Review the details of your capacity, and then select Create.

Create a new Power BI Embedded capacity with an EM SKU

To create a new Power BI Embedded with an EM SKU, follow these steps:

1. In the Capacity settings page, select Power BI Premium.

2. Select Set up new capacity.

3. In the Set up a new capacity page, enter the following information:

   • Capacity name - Give your capacity a name.

   • Capacity admins - Add capacity admins.

   • Region - Select the region you want to create the capacity in.

   • Available v-cores - Select the number of v-cores you want to use for the capacity.

   • Capacity size - Select one of these sizes:

     • EM1 - 1 v-core
     • EM2 - 2 v-cores
     • EM3 - 4 v-cores

4. Select Create.

Trial

To create a new Trial capacity, see Microsoft Fabric trial.

Fabric Capacity

To create a new Fabric capacity, follow these steps:

1. In the Capacity settings page, select Fabric capacity.

2. Below the list of capacities, select the link Set up a new capacity in Azure. The Create Fabric capacity page in Azure, opens in a new tab.

3. In the Azure Create Fabric capacity page, enter the following information:

   • Subscription - Select the Azure subscription you want to use for the capacity.

   • Resource group - Select the Azure resource group you want to use for the capacity.

   • Capacity name - Give your capacity a name.

   • Region - Select the region you want to create the capacity in.

   • Size - Select the size of the capacity.

   • Fabric capacity administrator - Select the capacity admins.

4. Select Review + create.

5. Review the details of your capacity, and then select Create.

Change the name of your capacity

Power BI Premium

To change the name of your Power BI Premium capacity, follow these steps:

1. In the Capacity settings page, select Power BI Premium.

2. From the list of capacities, select the gear icon (⚙) next to the capacity you want to change.

3. In the capacity's setting page, select the pencil icon next to the Capacity name field.

4. Enter the new name for the capacity, and then select the checkmark icon (✓).

Power BI Embedded

You can't change a trial capacity's name.

Trial

You can't change a trial capacity's name.

Fabric Capacity

You can't change a Fabric capacity's name.

Add and remove admins

Power BI Premium

To add or remove admins in a Power BI Premium capacity, follow these steps:

1. In the Capacity settings page, select Power BI Premium.

2. From the list of capacities, select the capacity you want to make changes to.

3. In the capacity's setting page, from the Details tab, select expand Admin permissions.

4. Add or remove admins from the text box.

5. Select Apply.

Power BI Embedded

To add or remove admins in a Power BI Embedded capacity, follow these steps:

1. In the Capacity settings page, select Power BI Embedded.

2. From the list of capacities, select the gear icon (⚙) next to the capacity you want to make changes to.

3. From the settings page, select the Manage fabric capacities in Azure link. Your Power BI Embedded capacity opens in Azure in a new tab.

4. Select Capacity administrators and do one of the following:

   • To add an admin, select Add, select the user or group to add as an admin, and then select Select.

   • To remove an admin, select the admin you want to remove, and then select Delete.

Trial

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.

Fabric Capacity

To add or remove admins in a Fabric capacity, follow these steps:

1. In the Capacity settings page, select Fabric Capacity.

2. From the list of capacities, select the capacity you want to make changes to.

3. In the capacity's setting page, from the Details tab, select expand Admin permissions.

4. Add or remove admins from the text box.

5. Select Apply.

Resize a capacity

Power BI Premium

To resize a Power BI Premium capacity, follow these steps:

1. In the Capacity settings page, select Power BI Premium.

2. Select the capacity you want to resize.

3. Select Change size.

4. In the Change size window, from the Capacity size dropdown, select the new size for the capacity.

5. Select Apply.

Power BI Embedded

To resize a Power BI Embedded capacity, follow these steps:

1. From the list of Fabric capacities, select the gear icon (⚙) next to the capacity you want to delete.

2. In the capacity's setting page, select the link Manage fabric capacities in Azure. A list of your Fabric capacities in Azure opens in a new tab.

3. Select the capacity you want to resize.

4. In the capacity settings page, in the Scale section, select Change size.

5. Select the new size for the capacity.

6. Select Resize.

Trial

You can't resize a trial capacity.

Fabric Capacity

To resize a Fabric capacity, see Scale your capacity.

Delete a 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.

Power BI Premium

To delete a Power BI Premium capacity, follow these steps:

1. In the Capacity settings page, select Power BI Premium.

2. From the list of Power BI Premium capacities, select the gear icon (⚙) next to the capacity you want to delete.

3. In the capacity's setting page, select Delete capacity.

4. In the confirmation dialog, select Delete.

Power BI Embedded

To delete a Power BI Embedded capacity, follow these steps:

1. In the Capacity settings page, select Power BI Embedded.

2. From the list of Power BI Embedded capacities, select the gear icon (⚙) next to the capacity you want to delete.

3. In the capacity's setting page, select Delete capacity.

4. In the confirmation dialog, select Delete.

Trial

To delete a trial capacity, you need to cancel the trial. To cancel a trial, see End a Fabric trial.

Fabric Capacity

To delete a Fabric Capacity, follow these steps:

1. From the list of Fabric capacities, select the gear icon (⚙) next to the capacity you want to delete.

2. In the capacity's setting page, select the link Manage fabric capacities in Azure. A list of your Fabric capacities in Azure opens in a new tab.

3. From the Fabric capacities list in Azure, select the capacity you want to delete by clicking its name.

4. Select Delete.

5. In the confirmation dialog, retype the capacity name, and then select Delete.

Autoscale

Power BI Premium

To enable autoscale on a Power BI Premium capacity, see Using Autoscale with Power BI Premium.

Power BI Embedded

To enable autoscale on a Power BI Embedded capacity, see Using Autoscale with Power BI Premium.

Trial

Autoscale isn't available for Trial capacities.

Fabric Capacity

Autoscale isn't available for Fabric capacities.

Capacity settings

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:

1. Go to the capacity settings page.

2. Select the capacity type your capacity belongs to.

3. From the capacity list, select the capacity you want to view.

Details

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: The entire organization Specific users or security groups
Admin permissions	Give specific users the ability to do the following: Change capacity settings Add contributors to the capacity Add or remove workspaces from the capacity
Power BI workloads	Configure Power BI workloads for: Semantic models Paginated reports AI
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.

Delegated tenant settings

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.

1. From the Delegate tenant setting list, open the setting you want to delegate permissions for.

2. Select the Override tenant admin selection checkbox.

3. Select Enabled

4. 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.

5. Select Apply.

Related content

• Microsoft Fabric licenses

• About tenant settings