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marmi
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9 years ago
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Multiple gateway installations for customers

Hello,   we have several customers, each of them use their own Power BI. Data is located in our server room for each customer. What would you suggest as a cost-efficient way to create gateways (one...
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    v-haibl-msft
    9 years ago

    marmi

     

    Yes, one gateway for one customer. And gateway can only be installed on Windows now.

     

    Best Regards,

    Herbert

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v-haibl-msft
Microsoft Employee
9 years ago

marmi

 

Do your customers use the same database? If yes, you can only install one on-premises gateway on one database machine, and manage users who can use the data source. Please refer to this document.

 

Best Regards,

Herbert

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marmi
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9 years ago

No, each customer has their own databases. The purpose is to have separate Power BI's as well. We don't want the customers to see each others reports, dashboards and data.

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    v-haibl-msft
    Microsoft Employee
    9 years ago

    marmi

     

    In that case, you just need to install one on-premises gateway on each database and configure the gateway for each customer account.

     

    Best Regards,

    Herbert

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      marmi
      Regular Visitor
      9 years ago

      I think you mean one gateway for each customer, and data sources to the gateway for customer's databases?

       

      Windows Containers/Docker cannot be used for this at the moment because the installer and the configurator does not support silent install and the containers are nano and core servers which are not suitable for this. This leaves VMWare virtual servers or pc desktop with Windows in it as an option.

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        v-haibl-msft
        Microsoft Employee
        9 years ago

        marmi

         

        Yes, one gateway for one customer. And gateway can only be installed on Windows now.

         

        Best Regards,

        Herbert