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Won
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2 years ago
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Power BI Premium Capacity Architecture

We currently have one Power BI Premium capacity that has multiple workspaces per environment (Dev, Test, and Production). Recently, we conducted load testing on one of our new reports in the Test wor...
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    Greg_Deckler
    2 years ago

    Won Biggest concern is that Premium capacity is going away and you will not be able to purchase it any longer. You will likely want to use a Fabric F-64 capacity that you can shut-off when not load testing. That way it won't cost you anything but storage when turned off.

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Won
Regular Visitor
2 years ago

Thank you Greg_Deckler for the response; I wasn't aware of that. By the way, do you see any problems about having separate Capacities for Development and Production? The idea is to isolate the environments so that Production users are not affected by potential performance degradation from heavy loads or testing activities during development phases. I haven't been able to find any use cases or documentation on this practice, and I'm wondering if it might not be the right approach. Could you share your thoughts? Thanks!

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bdymit
Resolver II
1 year ago

Won Our organization is asking the exact same question. Did you find a way to have multiple capacities, even with just one SKU? We are on P1 with 8 vcores and can't see any way to allocate 7 into the "development" and 1 to "consumption", or 6 and 2, etc.