Unable to increase Fabric Trial Capacity Size

[Shashwot]

I am not able to increase the fabric trial capacity in my tenant to F64. Although it is documented that the trial capacity can be increased by tenant/capacity admins, I do not have the option to do it, and mine is assigned with F4 capacity units.

Is there a way to increase the capacity units for my trial? It's causing me a lot of problems, specially with notebooks and pipelines as I am attempting to test out various integrations while exploring MS Fabric

To add more context, this is a new fabric tenancy I have setup for a new Microsoft tenant (~1 month old)

[v-ssriganesh]

Hello @Shashwot,

We hope you're doing well. Could you please confirm whether your issue has been resolved or if you're still facing challenges? Your update will be valuable to the community and may assist others with similar concerns.

Thank you.

[v-ssriganesh]

Hello @Shashwot,

Thank you for posting your query in the Microsoft Fabric Community Forum, and thanks to @Olufemi7, @4iurchenko & @svenchio for sharing valuable insights.

Could you please confirm if your query has been resolved by the provided solutions? This would be helpful for other members who may encounter similar issues.

Thank you for being part of the Microsoft Fabric Community.

[Olufemi7]

Hello @Shashwot, 
This is by design and not an issue with your tenant.

In Microsoft Fabric, trial capacity is fixed and cannot be scaled. When a new tenant activates the Fabric trial, it is assigned a predefined capacity (typically F4). This trial SKU does not support resizing to higher tiers such as F64, even for tenant or capacity admins.

The documentation that references increasing capacity applies to paid Fabric capacities, not trial environments, which is why the option is not available in your case.
Understand Microsoft Fabric licenses

Given that F4 is a very limited capacity, you may experience constraints with notebooks, pipelines, and other compute-intensive workloads, especially while testing integrations.

To use a larger capacity such as F64, you will need to create a paid capacity in Azure and assign your workspace to it.

In summary, trial capacity cannot be increased from F4 to F64. The only way to scale is to move to a paid capacity.

[4iurchenko]

Hi @Shashwot 

Thanks for your question.

Short action points you may try in your case:
1) Double check this documentation:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/fundamentals/fabric-trial
Here, it states the following:
Eligibility to increase trial capacity may vary. If you do not see the option, please contact your Microsoft sales representative or contact Azure sales team for assistance. Changing the trial capacity doesn't change the length of the trial. The number of remaining days doesn't reset or become extended.

2. So, if you don't have this button described, your the only action is to contact the sales team from Microsoft, and pitch your necessety. I believe, Microsoft will help you.

I hope, this helps. Please check the documentation I provided, it explicitly describes the specific steps. The direct link to the sales team is this one:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/contact/

I hope it helps. Like and making it a solution is very appreciated.

BR, Yurri
Independent advisor and Utah's Fabric Group Co-lead.

[svenchio · Accepted solution]

Hi @Shashwot ,  if you have an F64 you can change it to F4, but not the otherway around ... in my case, I still one of the lucky ones of having Fabric trial F64 and yes, I have the option to change it as shown below. 

As Fabric adoption has been growing, MSFT has restrictted new Fabric trials to be F4 by default, wich seems to be your case. So, moving to answer your question... 

"Is there a way to increase the capacity units for my trial? " > Eligibility to increase trial capacity may vary, but in your case, the answer is NO unless you contact Azure sales team as indicated 

Ref. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/fundamentals/fabric-trial#increase-trial-capacity 

Hope this clarifies and you can move forward and adjust your current workloads to the F4 capacity and in a way, start neccesary conversations and budget planning for your paid capacity or a combination of both 😁🤞 

I hope I answer the question to your satisfaction, if so, please mark this as solution and a thumbs-up will be nice.