What You Need Before You Begin
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Deployments on public clouds continue to be supported but the content for third-party public cloud deployments is no longer updated.
For the latest Tableau Server deployment content, see the Enterprise Deployment Guide(Link opens in a new window) and the Deploy(Link opens in a new window) section of Tableau Server help.
For those customers who have access, we recommend Tableau Cloud. For more details, see:
- Tableau Cloud Manual Migration Guide
- Tableau Cloud Trial for Admin(Link opens in a new window)
- Tableau Cloud: Get Started for Admin(Link opens in a new window)
Introduction
Before deploying Tableau Server on Microsoft Azure, you must have the following:
A Microsoft Azure subscription. If you don't already have a subscription, you can sign up for a free trial on the Microsoft Azure Free Trial(Link opens in a new window) website.
A Tableau Server license.
For a standalone Tableau Server deployment, you must contact sales(Link opens in a new window) for a product key.
For a cluster-based deployment, you need a user-based license (which covers all authorized users of Tableau Server), a core-based license (with a minimum of 16 cores), or a Tableau Server subscription license. To obtain a product key, contact sales(Link opens in a new window).
For more information about Tableau Server licensing options, see Licensing Overview(Link opens in a new window).
A Secure Shell (SSH) client or Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) client installed on your computer. If you're connecting from a computer running Microsoft Windows, you'll need to install an SSH client such as PuTTY(Link opens in a new window), or a Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) client such as xrdp(Link opens in a new window), to connect to your Azure VM running Linux. For more information, see Install and configure Remote Desktop to connect to a Linux VM in Azure(Link opens in a new window) at the Microsoft Azure website.
Tableau Server installer. You can download the installer from the Tableau Server Trial Download(Link opens in a new window) page.