Identity storage: use an external or use local identity store? See Licensing Overview (Link opens in a new window).
You can also learn more in the Tableau Server online help.
If you're still deciding what type of license to get, define the scenario you anticipate and contact Tableau (Link opens in a new window) to discuss what license and metric will best accommodate your needs. You can change the license metric used-for example, you can move from a user-based to a core-based license if the number of users you need to support grows. For this scenario, you might start with a core-based license that allows unlimited users. You have a small workgroup of users who will publish and manage workbooks, but who will make views available to hundreds or thousands of people in the company. In this case, you might start with a user-based license for 10 users (or more if you have more users). You have a small workgroup where only a handful of users will publish and view workbooks. The type of license you choose depends on how your users will work with Tableau Server.
Note that if you intend to install Tableau Server on a virtual machine (VM), check the specifications for the VM, which might be listed using vCPUs. Depending on the complexity of the workbooks on the server, extract usage, user concurrency, and the depth of interaction, you can support 10 and 100 users per core and still expect reasonable performance. This can include the Guest users who are allowed to interact with embedded views, but who don't have to sign in to Tableau Server in order to do so.Īn important consideration when using a core-based license model will be performance, because a set number of cores can only support so many users without having an impact on server responsiveness. Core-based licensing imposes no constraints on the number of user accounts in the system. For core-based licensing, you can install Tableau Server on a single-node or multi-node cluster, as long as the total number of cores for all of the nodes does not exceed the number of cores that you have licensed. With a core-based license you can run Tableau Server on a specific number of CPU cores (Link opens in a new window).
From the licensing perspective, a user is simply a user identity on Tableau Server. (We discuss later how you can create user identities on Tableau Server and options for how users can sign in.) A single user can work on multiple sites and projects, and can even have different permissions on different sites. With these licenses you can deploy Tableau Server on a single computer or on multiple computers in a cluster, as long as the total number of users doesn't exceed what the license allows.Įach user who interacts with Tableau Server content-publishes, views, downloads, etc.-must sign in to the server. User-based licenses specify exactly how many named users of each type (Creator, Explorer or Viewer) you can have for Tableau Server.
Tableau offers multiple types of User-Based term licenses that grant a range of capabilities at various price points, providing the flexibility for organizations to pay for the data analysis and data visualization capabilities that each type of user in their organization needs.
Term licenses, also known as subscription licenses, allow you to use and update Tableau Server for a specified period of time. Tableau Server term licenses are available with two different license metrics: User-Based and Core-Based. This chapter will help you answer these questions. How will Tableau Server access data sources? How will users authenticate to Tableau Server? Questions you need to be able to answerīefore you run setup, you must have answers to the following questions: It's pretty straightforward to install and configure a single-computer deployment of Tableau Server.