Solved: Re: VM best practice for On-Premise gateway?

Anonymous · ‎06-24-2020

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 direct me to any documents on best practices for setting this up? What tier of VM is the bare minimum? Can I turn off the VM while the refresh isn't running and have it turn back on again for the refresh?

Thanks in advance.

lbendlin · ‎06-24-2020

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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lbendlin · ‎06-24-2020

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.