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Anonymous
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Gateway for all company

Hello,

Maybe I will ask stupid question but I have to ask.

I was asked to run the PowerBI gate for the whole organization. Obviously, I should use a cluster, but I do not fully understand how should I plan it. If I run a cluster and during the installation I use my own account, it will be visible only to me, right?

Has anyone gone through the implementation of a global power bi gateway solution in the organization and can share their experiences?

Thanks in advance for your help.

 

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GilbertQ
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Super User

Hi there

 

You are correct in that the first person who installs the Gateway is by default the Administrator.

 

With the gateway there should possibly be a few Admins, which you can add via the Power BI Service.

 

Then when creating the data sources, that is where you will assign users or Active Directory Security groups who can access and use the data source.

 

I would recommend starting here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/connect-data/service-gateway-onprem

 

Go through each of the steps.





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v-robertq-msft
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Community Support

Hi, @Anonymous 

First, you should understand the two main function of Gateway cluster:

  1. Take the place of the main gateway when it’s offline.
  2. Let traffic be distributed evenly across gateways in a cluster to keep the load balance.

What’s more, you can add other members to the gateway admin, so that they can also manage the gateway cluster(like add data source, add admin)

I recommend you use an on-premise gateway server. Because it's closer to both on-premise data source and Power BI Service. (just like a bridge between these two things)


More info about on-premises data gateway admin

Tips of building a gateway cluster

More info about managing gateway cluster in Power BI

 

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v-robertq-msft
Community Support
Community Support

Hi, @Anonymous 

First, you should understand the two main function of Gateway cluster:

  1. Take the place of the main gateway when it’s offline.
  2. Let traffic be distributed evenly across gateways in a cluster to keep the load balance.

What’s more, you can add other members to the gateway admin, so that they can also manage the gateway cluster(like add data source, add admin)

I recommend you use an on-premise gateway server. Because it's closer to both on-premise data source and Power BI Service. (just like a bridge between these two things)


More info about on-premises data gateway admin

Tips of building a gateway cluster

More info about managing gateway cluster in Power BI

 

Best Regards,

Community Support Team _Robert Qin

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

GilbertQ
Super User
Super User

Hi there

 

You are correct in that the first person who installs the Gateway is by default the Administrator.

 

With the gateway there should possibly be a few Admins, which you can add via the Power BI Service.

 

Then when creating the data sources, that is where you will assign users or Active Directory Security groups who can access and use the data source.

 

I would recommend starting here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/connect-data/service-gateway-onprem

 

Go through each of the steps.





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Anonymous
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I would recommend starting here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/connect-data/service-gateway-onprem

 

Go through each of the steps.


Thank you.

I will do that for sure and I will test it.

One more thing. If I have my datasets on-premis and Power BI Service is on cloud ofcourse should I run my gateway servers on-premis (closer to data) or use VM on Azure instead?

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