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Multiple gatways in the same tenat
You can certainly install multiple Gateways in one tenant, even in the same network.
Here is a blog post by Kasper De Jonge (Who works at Microsoft) explaining how the Gateways work and how to use it in a larger scale environments.
GilbertQmattiaseriksson Installation of multiple gateways gets you balanced load, but doesn't help if the datasources are silo'd but used together in the same report. Let me explain:
Gateway 1 - connected to DataSource A, B, C
Gateway 2 - connected to DataSource D, E, F
Gateways 3 - 100 All with different datasources
All of the above is perfectly acceptable, and depending on load, a good solution as described in the blog.
Where it falls apart is if the use case includes a report that requires the use of DataSource A and E together in the same report. When the PBIX is published the dataset will not be available fo refresh because while the datasources will be active and working on the gateways, they are seperate gateways. Both A and E would have to be registered on the same gateway. This is a current limitation of the Power BI Gateways.
This was the point of my previous post. hope that clarifies.