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npowerbi
7 years agoAdvocate II
Gateway Location / Installation
Hi Team, Got little confusion on where a On Premise Gateway should be installed. What I have read so far is we should install gateway on same subnet of production data server. My Power BI Ten...
Greg_Deckler
7 years agoCommunity Champion
According to the docs, I believe you want it nearer to the data source. This could be for caching purposes, fast reads from the data source where the information is cached and compressed in-memory so that it speeds up transfer to the Power BI Service versus high latency reading during the initial process and only marginally better speed to the Service.
Disk I/O, always the bottleneck.