Power BI Premium Nodes - Back and Front End Vcores

[Anonymous]

Hi,

Just reading the official white paper on Power BI Premium. Microsoft sells Premium P1 sku with 8 vcores as total dedicated capacity. These 8 vcores are split as 4 front end and 4 backend.  Those 4 backend cores are resereved for you but the 4 front end are STILL Shared. So technically you are buying one 4 v cores under P1. Just be wary about it.  

I think MS could be more clearer on this matter.  The documents is 2 years old by the way, not sure if there a newer version released. 

 

[v-xicai · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous ,

You can refer to the latest Microsoft document here, the resources and limits of each Premium SKU (and equivalently sized A SKU) are described in the following table:

Capacity Nodes	Total v-cores	Backend v-cores	RAM (GB)	Frontend v-cores	DirectQuery/Live Connection (per sec)	Model Refresh Parallelism
EM1/A1	1	0.5	2.5	0.5	3.75	1
EM2/A2	2	1	5	1	7.5	2
EM3/A3	4	2	10	2	15	3
P1/A4	8	4	25	4	30	6
P2/A5	16	8	50	8	60	12
P3/A6	32	16	100	16	120	24

Best Regards,

Amy

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