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gateway can solved firewall error?
- 4 years ago
Yes on-premises gateway will mak it more stable and may help you in speed up processing too.
You can install your enterprise gateway on the same server as the datasource but keep a note on the ports that are required to be opened on the server to make the gateway work as it needs to communicate outside. If your report is already published in a workspace you don't have to do anything, just create a gateway and register it then you will see an option to ocnnect your datasource to gateway and just add it there.
You can find more details here:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/data-integration/gateway/service-gateway-communication
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/connect-data/service-gateway-onprem-indepth
That sounds great.
On-premises gateway only consumes a lot of memory when you are freshing too many reports at the same time and doing a lot of aggregationg in reports otherwise it should be fine, though MS recommends below: