How to Check Your Storage Limit in Business Central Cloud

In my earlier blog post, I showed you how to create additional sandboxes, test environments, and upgrade Apps in Microsoft D365 Business Central. This article will […]

Randy Villanueva

Published: Nov 13, 2020 •

Table of Contents

D365 BC Admin Center: Capacity Page
Capacity Page in D365 Business Central Admin Center
D365 Business Central Admin Center and the Capacity Page
Capacity Page
Environment Quota Usage
Storage Usage by Environment
List of Tables (P8700)
Table Information Page

In my earlier blog post, I showed you how to create additional sandboxes, test environments, and upgrade Apps in Microsoft D365 Business Central.

This article will show you a quick peek at some of the newest admin features that would help in your Business Central resources and capacity planning using the Dynamics 365 Business Central Admin Center version 17 2020 Release Wave 2.

D365 BC Admin Center: Capacity Page

Storage Capacity Usage
Environment Quota Usage
Storage Usage by Environment
- Shortcut to List of Tables by Environment
  - P8700 – Table Information

Capacity Page in D365 Business Central Admin Center

The feature overview below is limited to version 17 2020 Release Wave 2 of Microsoft D365 Business Central.

D365 Business Central Admin Center and the Capacity Page

Open BC Admin Center and Select the Capacity Tab to display the page.

Capacity Page

The Capacity page displays a tenant-level view of storage usage, quota and capacity by environment.

Environment Quota Usage

Production environments come together with three additional sandbox environments.

Storage Usage by Environment

List of Tables (P8700)

Clicking on the list of tables link in Storage Usage by Environment section will show you the detailed per Company and Table record information.

Clicking on the list of tables link in Storage Usage by Environment section will show you the details per Company and Table record information.

Table Information Page

On this page, you may use the standard filters to view each company’s data footprint and export the information to excel for further analysis.

use the standard filters to view the data footprint

Next time, we’ll look at what to do when you exceed your capacity quotas and tips to optimize the data stored in your BC Cloud. In the meantime, take note of the following BC add-ons and contact our 360 Visibility’s Business Central Consultants if you need help:

– Dynamics 365 Business Central Database Capacity
– Dynamics 365 Business Central Additional Environment Add-on

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Randy Villanueva

As a Senior Dynamics Consultant, Randy is responsible for development projects, conversions, integrations and migrations. He has extensive development and implementation experience in Business Central & Dynamics NAV, and delivered successful projects involving multiple industries including finance, manufacturing, non-profit and transportation. Randy is a Microsoft Certified Dynamics 365 Business Central Functional Consultant and holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics – with a major in Computer Science - from the University of Santo Tomas.

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