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PowerBi Data Gateway

This document discusses installing an on-premises data gateway to facilitate access to on-premises data. It recommends installing the gateway in standard mode on a computer that meets the minimum requirements of .NET Framework 4.6 and Windows 8 or later. Additional gateways can be added to the first gateway to create a high availability cluster. The document provides steps to download, install, and configure a standard gateway and add additional gateways to an existing cluster. It also discusses using the on-premises data gateway app to manage the gateway.

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PowerBi Data Gateway

This document discusses installing an on-premises data gateway to facilitate access to on-premises data. It recommends installing the gateway in standard mode on a computer that meets the minimum requirements of .NET Framework 4.6 and Windows 8 or later. Additional gateways can be added to the first gateway to create a high availability cluster. The document provides steps to download, install, and configure a standard gateway and add additional gateways to an existing cluster. It also discusses using the on-premises data gateway app to manage the gateway.

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Install an on-premises data gateway

An on-premises data gateway is software that you install in an on-premises network.


The gateway facilitates access to data in that network.

As we explain in the overview, you can install a gateway either in personal mode, which
applies to Power BI only, or in standard mode. We recommend standard mode. In that
mode, you can install a standalone gateway or add a gateway to a cluster, which we
recommend for high availability.

In this article, we show you how to install a standard gateway, how to add another
gateway to create a cluster, and how to install a personal mode gateway.

Requirements
Minimum requirements

 .NET Framework 4.6 (Gateway release August 2019 and earlier)


 .NET Framework 4.7.2 (Gateway release September 2019 and later)
 A 64-bit version of Windows 8 or a 64-bit version of Windows Server 2012 R2

Recommended

 An 8-core CPU
 8 GB of memory
 A 64-bit version of Windows Server 2012 R2 or later
 Solid-state drive (SSD) storage for spooling.

Related considerations

 Gateways aren't supported on Server Core installations.


 The user installing the gateway must be the admin of the gateway.
 The gateway can't be installed on a domain controller.
 If you're planning to use Windows authentication, make sure you install the
gateway on a computer that's a member of the same Active Directory environment
as the data sources.
 Don't install a gateway on a computer, like a laptop, that might be turned off,
asleep, or disconnected from the internet. The gateway can't run under any of
those circumstances.
 If a gateway uses a wireless network, its performance might suffer.
 You could install other applications on the gateway machine, but this may
degrade gateway performance. If you do install other applications on the gateway
machine, be sure to monitor the gateway closely to check if there's any resource
contention.
 You can install up to two gateways on a single computer: one running in personal
mode and the other running in standard mode. You can't have more than one
gateway running in the same mode on the same computer.

Download and install a standard gateway


Because the gateway runs on the computer that you install it on, be sure to install it on a
computer that's always turned on. For better performance and reliability, we
recommend that the computer is on a wired network rather than a wireless one.

1. Download the standard gateway.


2. In the gateway installer, keep the default installation path, accept the terms of
use, and then select Install.
3. Enter the email address for your Office 365 organization account, and then
select Sign in.

 Note

You need to sign in with either a work account or a school account. This account is
an organization account. If you signed up for an Office 365 offering and didn't
supply your work email address, your address might look like
nancy@contoso.onmicrosoft.com. Your account is stored within a tenant in Azure
AD. In most cases, your Azure AD account’s User Principal Name (UPN) will match
the email address.

The gateway is associated with your Office 365 organization account. You manage
gateways from within the associated service.

You're now signed in to your account.

4. Select Register a new gateway on this computer > Next.


5. Enter a name for the gateway. The name must be unique across the tenant. Also
enter a recovery key. You'll need this key if you ever want to recover or move your
gateway. Select Configure.
Note the Add to an existing gateway cluster checkbox. We'll use this checkbox
in the next section of this article.

Also note that you can change the region that connects the gateway to cloud
services. For more information, see Set the data center region.

 Note

For soverign clouds, we currently only support installing gateways in the default
PowerBI region of your tenant. The region picker on the installer is only supported
for Public cloud.
Finally, you can also provide your own Azure Relay details. For more information
about how to change the Azure Relay details, see Set the Azure Relay for on-
premises data gateway.

6. Review the information in the final window. Because this example uses the same
account for Power BI, Power Apps, and Power Automate, the gateway is available
for all three services. Select Close.

Now that you've installed a gateway, you can add another gateway to create a cluster.
Add another gateway to create a cluster
A cluster lets gateway admins avoid having a single point of failure for on-premises data
access. If the primary gateway is unavailable, data requests are routed to the second
gateway that you add, and so on.

Because you can install only one standard gateway on a computer, you must install each
additional gateway in the cluster on a different computer. This requirement makes sense
because you want redundancy in the cluster.

 Note

Offline gateway members within a cluster will negatively impact performance. These
members should either be removed or disabled.

Make sure the gateway members in a cluster are running the same gateway version, as
different versions could cause unexpected failures based on supported functionality.

To create high-availability gateway clusters, you need the November 2017 update or a
later update to the gateway software.

1. Download the gateway to a different computer and install it.


2. After you sign in to your Office 365 organization account, register the gateway.
Select Add to an existing cluster. In the Available gateway clusters list, select
the primary gateway, which is the first gateway you installed. Enter the recovery
key for that gateway. Select Configure.
Use the on-premises data gateway app
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To open the on-premises data gateway app:

1. On the machine where the gateway is running, enter gateway in Windows


search.
2. Select the On-premises data gateway app.
Some of the on-premises data gateway app features can be used only after you sign in
to your Office 365 account. For example, under the Service Settings tab, you can restart
the gateway without signing in, but you can't change the service account of your
gateway without signing in.

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