The long-awaited whitepaper, Splunk SmartStore on FlashBlade is finally here, right on time before the Splunk Conference that starts on Monday, Oct 21st, 2019 and can be found at this link.
Thanks to Splunk for listening to their customers’ request to reduce the Splunk storage usage by disaggregating the storage from compute which not only reduces the overall storage usage but improves the TCO, enables independent scaling of storage and compute, and offers significant improvements in operational activities like indexer node additions, removal, data rebalance, etc.,
The whitepaper explains the benefits of deploying Splunk SmartStore on Pure FlashBlade and covers various tests like data ingest, concurrent searches and operational efficiency tests and their results. The whitepaper also covers the storage and cache sizing for SmartStore and details the best practices for setting up Splunk SmartStore on FlashBlade.
