Change Data Region

[JannikT]

Hi everyone,

I would like to move a workspace to a new premium capacity which was implemented in West Europe (AMS).
However the data of these datasets (large storage mode) of the workspace are stored in North Europe (DUB).

Is it therefore possible to change the data region of my workspace to West Europe (AMS)?
And if yes, how can I do that?

Or does my premium capacity also have to be in North Europe (DUB) if my created datasets have North Europe (DUB) as their data storage region?

Thank you very much in advance for any help 🙂

[Pepi]

Hi @v-jingzhang 

If I'm reading the article (Configure Multi-Geo support for Power BI Premium ) correctly, creating a Fabric capacity in a region that is not your tenant's home region and moving some PBI workspace there, would migrate the data on that workspace (semantic models etc) to the capacity's region - is that correct? I need to find a definitive confirmation for this because I'm getting some conflicting advices on this even from Microsoft support.

Thanks

[jeffshieldsdev]

I found you can go into Dataset Settings, turn off Large storage mode, move the Workspace to the capacity in a different region, turn back on Large storage mode.

[v-jingzhang · Accepted solution]

Hi @JannikT 

For your questions, you can refer to this official doc first: Large datasets in Power BI Premium. Here is a Note extracting from it: Once a large dataset is created in a workspace, it must stay in that region. You cannot reassign a workspace with a large dataset to a Premium capacity in another region.

What you want is the Multi-Geo feature. If Multi-Geo is enabled, you can move workspace to a premium capacity in other data regions from the home region. You can also create a large-storage format dataset in other data region. But it is not supported to move an existing large-storage format dataset to another data region. For more detailed descriptions and considerations, please refer to Configure Multi-Geo support for Power BI Premium 

• It is possible to create and maintain large-storage format datasets in remote regions to meet data residency requirements. However, note that you cannot move storage format datasets to another region. Moving large-storage format datasets from the region where they were created will result in reports failing to load the dataset. Move the large-storage dataset back to its original region to make it available. If you must move such a model, you must deploy it as if it was a new model, and then delete the old model from the undesired region.

Hope this helps. 

Best Regards,
Community Support Team _ Jing
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