Since the gateway relates to different areas of IT, including infrastructure, networking, and data security, subject matter experts in these areas often inquire about the technical requirements of the gateway and its functionality. Additionally, business intelligence teams want to ensure that the gateway doesn't become a bottleneck to query performance and that dependencies on an individual gateway are avoided. Therefore, the BI/IT teams responsible for deploying Power BI solutions with on-premises data (or IaaS data) must partner with these other IT stakeholders to resolve questions and to provision the appropriate resources for the On-premises data gateway.

This section addresses three of the most common gateway planning questions. Information related to high availability and security is included in the gateway clusters and architectures, and gateway security sections, respectively.