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powerbiexpert22
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Impactful Individual

Number of users support on Power BI On-Premises Deployment

I am unable to find how many users are supported as per below Fabric License Deployment model, example how many users are supported in capacity F2

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lbendlin
Super User
Super User

The number of users is irrelevant. The number of (concurrent) activities is what drives capacity sizing.

Hi @lbendlin ,

i meant number of concurrent users sorry

Anonymous
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Hi @powerbiexpert22,

Thanks for reaching out to the Microsoft fabric community forum and for clarifying that you’re asking about concurrent users rather than total licensed seats. In Microsoft Fabric (just like in Power BI Premium), capacity sizing isn’t driven by no of users but by the amount of compute and memory you’ve purchased and how many simultaneous workloads that can sustain as already mentioned by @lbendlin.

Here’s a breakdown for the F2 capacity and what F2 actually gives you:

 Compute power:

        * 4 Spark v-Cores for on-demand Spark workloads.

        * 2 Capacity Units (CUs) per second, which Fabric’s engine uses to throttle and smooth                             background jobs across the day.

        * Memory and storage are likewise fixed.

 Spark notebook concurrency

  On an F2 SKU, because you have just 4 v-Cores, only one Spark session can run at a time. If User A is

  actively running code in Notebook 1, and User B tries to start a second session in Notebook 2, that

  session will queue (and eventually time out with a “too many requests” error)

 Dataflows and pipelines

  Dataflows and Lakehouse transformations share those same CUs. If you run multiple dataflows or

  pipelined jobs at once, they’ll compete for the same pool of 2 CUs/sec and queue if you exceed

  capacity.

 

I would also take a moment to thank @lbendlin and @Deku, for actively participating in the community forum and for the solutions you’ve been sharing in the community forum. Your contributions make a real difference.

 

If I misunderstand your needs or you still have problems on it, please feel free to let us know.  

Best Regards,
Hammad.
Community Support Team

 

If this post helps then please mark it as a solution, so that other members find it more quickly.

Thank you.

Anonymous
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Hi @powerbiexpert22,

As we haven’t heard back from you, so just following up to our previous message. I'd like to confirm if you've successfully resolved this issue or if you need further help.

If yes, you are welcome to share your workaround and mark it as a solution so that other users can benefit as well. If you find a reply particularly helpful to you, you can also mark it as a solution.


If you still have any questions or need more support, please feel free to let us know. We are more than happy to continue to help you.
Thank you for your patience and look forward to hearing from you.

Anonymous
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Hi @powerbiexpert22,

I wanted to check if you had the opportunity to review the information provided. Please feel free to contact us if you have any further questions. If my response has addressed your query, please accept it as a solution so that other community members can find it easily.


Thank you.

Anonymous
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Hi @powerbiexpert22.,

May I ask if you have resolved this issue? If so, please mark the helpful reply and accept it as the solution. This will be helpful for other community members who have similar problems to solve it faster.

 

Thank you.

Deku
Super User
Super User

Power BI workflows require a F64 capacity or higher


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