I have an on-prem server that currently has an Azure Data Management Gateway installed on it. Can I also install the Power BI Enterprise Gateway on that same on-prem server? If not, how should I go about installing the Power BI Enterprise Gateway?
I don't see any reason technically why you couldn't install on your Azure DMG however depending on the specifications of that server and the amount of people you expect to use your PowerBI gateway it might be better on a separate server.
The documentation provides a really good walkthrough for installing the gateway... https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-gateway-enterprise/#download-and-install-the-power-bi-gateway---enterprise
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We have some dedicated LOB application on-premise applications. Access to these apps is through the public Internet. Active Directory Domain Services is used to authenticate users.
In Azure, there are multiple ways to create high-availability; is there something similar for on-premise apps using Azure? By this I mean if one on-premise system is down, traffic is routed to another app.
I know there are some options such as Application Gateway, Traffic manager and Front-door including Azure LB, my question is - are these the right services we should use in an on-premise setting?
For your on premise environment, you can use Network Load balancing(NLB) feature of Windows Server. See details here, it has an Azure inspired feature too.
For my Pro Power BI Project, I need to consume external API calls through set of automated endpoint calls.
However these set of APIs are accessible only over Private VPN Network and require OpenVPN to access them.
Below is error snapshot in Power BI:
Would Data Dateway resolve above issue or would another alternative - middleware script be required?
First that screenshot you provided looks like it is from Power BI Desktop. The on-premises data gateway is unrelated to Power BI Desktop refreshes. So make sure your laptop is connected to OpenVPN when you refresh in Power BI Desktop.
Once you are happy with the report you have built and want to publish it to the Power BI Service you will need to setup an on-premises data gateway so that the scheduled refreshes will be able to talk to your source APIs over OpenVPN. Typically you install the “standard mode” (see the link above for more details) and put it on a Virtual Machine or server which is always running (rather than a laptop which can be shut down at night during the scheduled refresh). But if you don’t need scheduled refresh during hours when your laptop is off, I suppose you could use “personal mode”. Personal mode isn’t recommended generally.
Make sure OpenVPN is connected on the server where the on-premises data gateway software is installed. If this VPN connection disconnects after a few hours then ask your IT team for a better way to get a Virtual Machine which is on the same network as the source API or on a network which has a site-to-site “always connected” type VPN connection.
You will need to install and configure the gateway software, create a data source with credentials for your source API, ensure your user account is a “User” on that gateway data source, then republish the report from Power BI Desktop so it will bind to the gateway data source and use it during refresh.
I was looking for the way to connect my Azure Web App using a hybrid connection to my On Premise Database server, Oracle Linux.
Any suggestions?
greetings.
Unfortunately, Hybrid Connection Manager does not Support for Linux. The Hybrid Connections feature requires a relay agent in the network that hosts your Hybrid Connection endpoint. The reply agent (HCM) is not supported on anything earlier than Windows Server 2012. Refer to this doc: Azure App Service Hybrid Connections.
Also, you can vote this for HCM Support for Linux so that Azure App Service Team will receive your feedback and will have a support plan in the future.
It is recommended to run Oracle Software on Azure which brings scalability, flexibility, security, and performance to your Oracle workloads—while reducing the cost of infrastructure management. You can see the list of Oracle images.
We have a corporate web services with back end SAP, CRM etc. We would like to expose this web service (java web service) so that azure web role can connect to corporate intranet web services.
Could someone please suggest which of below technologies will fit and why:
1. Windows Service Bus
2. Windows Azure Connect
or 3. VPN (Virtual Network).
Service bus will require some effort to get working, but is a good solution if your corporate network overlords are very picky about exposing endpoints. Windows Azure Connect creates a VPN-like tunnel, but requires that specific software be installed, configured and maintained. I have an app that successfully uses virtual networking and utilises existing VPN gateways and skills - very understandable to the security and networking people.
I just started to read about this new technology...
Does someone have some knowledge about it?
http://www.microsoft.com/azure/howdoesitwork.mspx
Windows Azure is a cloud services
operating system that serves as the
development, service hosting, and
service management environment for the
Azure Services Platform. Windows Azure
provides developers with on-demand
compute and storage to host and manage
web applications on the internet
through Microsoft data centers.
So in summary, no you do not need a traditional web host if you used Microsoft's Azure. Note also that it is still only in Community Technology Preview and it isn't something you should be thinking about right now, IMHO.