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6 years ago
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VM best practice for On-Premise gateway?

I'm operating as an ISV and many of my clients are on-premise. I want to set up a virtual machine with a VPN connection to their servers that holds the gateway for scheduled refresh.   Can anyone d...
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    6 years ago

    Really depends on the workloads and the SKU your customers are using. As much RAM as you can get, as much (fast) disk space as you can get. There are monitoring tools available that show you the gateway utilization.

     

    And yes, technically you could switch off the gateway if no dataset refreshes are scheduled. But that would also prevent users from doing manual refreshes on the service, and API refresh requests.

     

    Oh, and having only one gateway VM is not good for BCP.  Use a cluster if possible.

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6 years ago

Really depends on the workloads and the SKU your customers are using. As much RAM as you can get, as much (fast) disk space as you can get. There are monitoring tools available that show you the gateway utilization.

 

And yes, technically you could switch off the gateway if no dataset refreshes are scheduled. But that would also prevent users from doing manual refreshes on the service, and API refresh requests.

 

Oh, and having only one gateway VM is not good for BCP.  Use a cluster if possible.