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digitalbrain
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1 year ago
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Fabric Capacity SKU Concept - Compute and Storage

I'm having hard time understanding the SKUs of Fabric Capacity. I worked on a project where I needed to move the data from point A (source) to point B (lakehouse). I created Fabric Capacity resource ...
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    frithjof_v
    1 year ago

    Did you get a specific error message?

     

    Did you have a look in the Fabric Capacity Metrics App to see if your capacity's compute has been over utilized?

     

    If your capacity is in a throttling or rejection state, it might mean you are not able to access the data via the Fabric workloads. Because reading/writing data consumes some capacity compute resources.

     

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/onelake/onelake-consumption#transactions

     

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/enterprise/throttling

     

    If you are indeed experiencing throttling, there are some ways to pay to get rid of the throttling. Or I think you need to wait. If you choose to pause your capacity in order to get rid of the throttling, you will get billed extra.

     

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/enterprise/pause-resume

     

    "When you pause your capacity, the remaining cumulative overages and smoothed operations on your capacity are summed, and added to your Azure bill. You can monitor a paused capacity using the Microsoft Fabric Capacity Metrics app.

     

    If your capacity is being throttled, pausing it stops the throttling and returns your capacity to a healthy state immediately. This behavior enables you to pause your capacity as a self-service mechanism that ends throttling."

     

    So if you are experiencing throttling, perhaps you just need to wait it out if you don't want to pay any extra. Or you can consider ways of paying to get out of the throttling state. E.g. pausing and resuming the capacity is a way of paying extra to get out of the throttling state.

     

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/enterprise/throttling#actions-you-can-take-to-recover-from-overload-situations