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6 years ago

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On-premises data gateway azure

My data sits on multiple SQL servers. Is it a good option to have a separate Power BI server on Azure and set up a gateway on that and from there can we pull data from different SQL servers to the Po...

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v-diye-msft
6 years ago
Hi hitesh160790

You can certainly install it on a VM in Azure.

All that needs to happen is the Gateway needs to be installed on a Windows Operating System.

Here are some articles may help you:

Install an on-premises data gateway

The Power BI Gateway; All You Need to Know

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Service/Hosting-On-premises-Power-BI-Gateway-on-azure/td-p/95896

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Service/On-premises-Data-Gateway/m-p/249716

Another thing is to keep the on-premise data gateway to run as the latest version.

hitesh160790

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6 years ago

Thank you TomMartens for your reply. My all data sources are in Virtual machines. I was planning to buy a new server(VM) which will be on Azure and from there I was planning to install a gateway and pull data from my sources. Is that a good idea?

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