Gateway Best Practices

- at least two cluster members (more is better). Make sure that they have exactly the same configuration. All the drivers, all the ODBC settings, all the TNS entries etc.

- lots of cores and fast NIC (for Direct Query workloads)

- lots of memory and disk space (for Import Mode workloads)

- do not install anything else on the gateway VMs

- move the report and spooler folders to a different spindle.

- wait before installing a newly released gateway version. There is no undo button. You will have to uninstall, reinstall and reconfigure if you mess up

- never ever lose the recovery key. DO NOT lose the recovery key

- make friends with the network people. Without a functioning and fast proxy your gateway VMs are nothing more than electronic door stops.

- implement your own telemetry monitoring.  The default gateway monitoring template is usel...  uhm has room for improvement.