Simplifying capacity management with unified v-cores
We’re excited to announce a platform update to simplify the way customers manage Power BI Premium capacities. Starting on December 11th 2022, we’ll be rolling out changes to unify the concepts of front-end and back-end virtual cores for capacity management. Unification of these concepts addresses the feedback we’ve heard from customers who sometimes misinterpret the concepts of customer-managed v-cores from Microsoft managed v-cores. This change will simplify the model used by customers to both manage capacities and rationalize usage metrics against capacity sizing decisions. How do Premium capacity v-cores work today? Power BI Premium has historically used v-cores as the unit of measure that customers use to reserve compute resources when purchasing a capacity. After a capacity is purchased, its resources can then be used to run a variety of Power BI workloads. Before this change, purchased v-cores in a reserved capacity would be split evenly between ...