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hitesh160790
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6 years ago
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Power BI Gateway

I need to understand the concept of a gateway. I have multiple servers like Server1 where there are few databases and Server2 where there are few other databases. Should I have another server (i.e S...
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    TomMartens
    6 years ago

    Hey hitesh160790 ,

     

    yes you should use a 3rd machine where you install the on-premises gateway, for a start I recommend 32 to 64GB of RAM, this depends on how the different databases will be used by the gateway, either direct query or import.

     

    The document "Planning a Power BI Enterprise Deployment" that can be found here

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/whitepapers

    also has some chapter about the gateway.

     

    Regards,

    Tom

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TomMartens
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6 years ago

Hey hitesh160790 ,

 

yes you should use a 3rd machine where you install the on-premises gateway, for a start I recommend 32 to 64GB of RAM, this depends on how the different databases will be used by the gateway, either direct query or import.

 

The document "Planning a Power BI Enterprise Deployment" that can be found here

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/whitepapers

also has some chapter about the gateway.

 

Regards,

Tom