Power BI Gateway

[hitesh160790]

I need to understand the concept of a gateway.

I have multiple servers like Server1 where there are few databases and Server2 where there are few other databases. Should I have another server (i.e Server 3) where I will install gateway to load data from server1 and server2 and how much RAM should I have on it?

Note: Data is not so much right now and neither there are any complex DAX queries.

[TomMartens · Accepted solution]

Hey @hitesh160790 ,

yes you should use a 3rd machine where you install the on-premises gateway, for a start I recommend 32 to 64GB of RAM, this depends on how the different databases will be used by the gateway, either direct query or import.

The document "Planning a Power BI Enterprise Deployment" that can be found here

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/whitepapers

also has some chapter about the gateway.

Regards,

Tom