Data Gateway on Azure VM - how give access to on premises network?

[bbbm]

Our on premises data needs a Data Gateway.  So OK, naturally we spin up an Azure VM. 

But then the Azure VM is outside the network, so that kind of defeats the purspose doesn't it? 

Very basic question: How would one give an Azure VM Data Gateway, access to on premises data?  Install a VPN on the VM, or? 

[bbbm]

yes - Azure VM works fine as long as setup fine.  Our Azure VMs are effectively "internal" and on the same virtual network as our on premises.

[v-zhangti · Accepted solution]

Hi, @bbbm 

Azure Private Endpoint for Power BI is a network interface that connects you privately and securely to the Power BI service, powered by Azure Private Link.

Private Endpoints integration enables Platform as a Service (PaaS) services to be deployed and accessed privately from customer's virtual and on-premises networks, while the service is still running outside of the customer’s network. Private Endpoints is a single, directional technology that lets clients initiate connections to a given service, but it doesn't allow the service to initiate a connection into the customer network. This Private Endpoint integration pattern provides management isolation, since the service can operate independently of customer network policy configuration. For multi-tenant services, this Private Endpoint model provides link identifiers to prevent access to other customers' resources hosted within the same service. When using Private Endpoints, only a limited set of other PaaS service resources can be accessed from services using the integration.

The Power BI service implements Private Endpoints, and not Service Endpoints.

Using private endpoints with Power BI provide the following benefits:

1. Private endpoints ensure that traffic will flow over the Azure backbone to a private endpoint for Azure cloud-based resources.

2. Network traffic isolation from non-Azure based infrastructure, such as on-premises access, would require customers to have ExpressRoute or a Virtual Private Network (VPN) configured.

Please refer to the following link, hope it can help you.

https://docs.microsoft.com/power-bi/enterprise/service-security-private-links 

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