Merge Power BI Premium Capacities

[calamityjen]

Does anyone know if its possible to merge 2 x P3 capacities (to create a P4) easily?

Or is it a case of removing a capacity, then increasing the size of the existing one to P4 size?  I guess that could cause some disruption though.

[Mail_daz]

@calamityjen I am curious to see if your capacity issue was resolved with your P4 addition? May I ask how many Capacities you are using and whether it met your requirements? I'm in the process of evaluating whether moving to PowerBi from Tableau is a good idea. What I'm seeing in terms of capacities is it takes a lot of capacity to support PowerBi. Thank you in advance for your assistance.

[collinq · Accepted solution]

hey @calamityjen ,

Depending on your need, you can increase the capacity of an existing premium capacity - that would give you the "merge" level of capacity.  There is no "merge" capability of taking two separate capacities and putting them together.

So, if you ramp up one of your capacities, you will have to go through and reset all of your workspaces to the one ramped up capacity.  This inclused reworking all of your gateway usage.  Which, if you are modifying  the gateway, you will have to have every report that uses that gateway to be re-worked to point to the gateway on the ramped up capacity.

And, unfortunately, there is no "gateway transfer" or "capacity transfer" capability to do this in one shot.

[calamityjen]

Hi @collinq - I suspected it'd be a case of increasing one and moving everything over.. but I'd not considered gateways, sounds like a real pain.   Thanks for this! Really helpful 😀