About v-cores

[Tiffany_Jo]

Hi I would like to confirm about the v-cores of shared capacity.

What are responsible for core Power BI functionality and the web service for the shared capacity if there is no v-cores consept.

Premium:

Backend v-cores are responsible for core Power BI functionality, including query processing, cache management, running R services, model refresh, and server-side rendering of reports and images. Backend v-cores are assigned a fixed amount of memory that is primarily used to host models, also known as active datasets.

Frontend v-cores are responsible for the web service, dashboard and report document management, access rights management, scheduling, APIs, uploads and downloads, and generally for everything related to the user experiences.

[ibarrau · Accepted solution]

Hi. That's kind of a black box. Microsoft says that in shared capacity workloads' analytics processing run on computational resources shared with other customers. You have your resources in a place that you won't know the cores, memory or any detail of it's capacity. You only need to follow some rules, considerations and limitations.

Shared Capacity limits: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/admin/service-admin-manage-your-data-storage-in-power-bi

I hope that helps,