On-Premises update to Gen2

[Paolo_lito]

Hello community ,

my questions are  quite simple but as I 'm not experienced enough as platform administrator , I hope you can help me .

Currently   my client has an on-premise version of Power bi report server with P1(SKU) capacity . so the infrastructure is not on the cloud .

How I can verify if the capacity has already migrated to Gen2 ?

Does the migration from Gen1 to Gen2 is automatic or a manual operation need to be done  ? 

I read somewhere that Microsoft will migrate automatically Gen1 to Gen2 before  the end of March 2022 . is it True ? 

I confess that the usage of the capacity is quite confusing for me . so I hope you can help me on thissubject .

Thanks in advance

paololito

[v-henryk-mstf]

Hi @Paolo_lito ,

Agree with @d_gosbell  explanation, if the problem has been solved you can mark the reply for the standard answer to help the other members find it more quickly. If not, please point it out.

Looking forward to your feedback.

Best Regards,
Henry

[d_gosbell · Accepted solution]

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@Paolo_lito wrote:

Currently   my client has an on-premise version of Power bi report server with P1(SKU) capacity . so the infrastructure is not on the cloud .

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So the whole Gen1 vs Gen2 architecture only relates to workspaces hosted on the cloud.

Gen2 gets its extra performance by scaling out certain opertions to other nodes in the cloud. But if you are ONLY using on-prem infrastucture everything is running on the machine where you installed Report Server and there are no other cloud nodes to scale out to.

[AlexisOlson]

Check the Capacity settings in the Admin portal as described here:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/enterprise/service-premium-transition-gen1-to-gen2

If you aren't already migrated, then you should see an option to enable Gen2.

"If you want to perform your own migration to the latest platform before March 2022, it's easy to transition. You simply need to enable Premium Gen2 in the Power BI admin portal."

[Paolo_lito]

Thanks @AlexisOlson .

does it mean that  if nothing is done , Microsoft will update automatically To Gen2 without notification ?

[AlexisOlson]

If you have a Premium capacity that requires migrating, you'll receive an email notification 60 days before the migration is scheduled to start