A share of capacity divided off a default licence through the VCF Business Services console, say to give each VCF Operations instance its own allocation. All the splits combined are capped at what the original default licence holds.
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Terms in this definition
- Share
In OpenSharing, the container you fill with tables, views, volumes, models and notebooks for recipients. You need
CREATE SHAREon the metastore to make one; add a schema and all its assets, including later ones, go with history. - Capacity
A reserved block of compute for a tenant whose size is fixed by its SKU; Fabric F SKUs express it in capacity units (CUs). Workspaces assigned to it unlock features like Copilot, and from F64 upwards people with free licences can view Power BI content.
- Default licence
Created for you in the Business Services console, it gathers up capacity across all live subscriptions with matching product, site and measuring unit; you may carve it into smaller pieces.
- VCF Business Services console
Where Broadcom licences are handled: you create, split and attach licence files to a registered VCF Operations instance here. VCF 9.0 moved from 25-character licence keys to these files.
- VCF Operations
VCF's console for running the fleet. It covers alerting, monitoring, capacity, reporting, log analysis and licensing alongside fleet management of identity, passwords, certificates and lifecycle.
- ALL
A DAX function that ignores any filters and gives back every row of a table or every value of the named columns. Used within CALCULATE, it works as a modifier that clears filters, although REMOVEFILTERS states that intent more clearly where it is available.