As a Splunk admin managing the storage for the Splunk deployment, it is not uncommon to browse the index directories on the Splunk indexers either to gather the total storage usage across hot/warm and cold tiers or to perform backup or restore activities. In the traditional Splunk Enterprise deployment with direct attached storage or an …
This post is a simple and quick guide to deploy Splunk SmartStore on Pure Storage’s FlashBlade object-store. This is the guide I follow all the time when I want to deploy Splunk for testing in our internal lab. This guide is applicable to Splunk versions from 7.3 to the latest version 8.2.3. Word of caution: …
At Pure Storage, most of our Splunk customers who chose FlashArrays and/or FlashBlades to host their critical applications also chose Splunk as their preferred choice for monitoring. The monitoring platform allows Organizations for a proactive response, supports their Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), improves their Operations, and helps in issue identification and troubleshooting. For …
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Most of Pure FlashArray customers are used to the snapshot functionality that helps them in taking either a crash-consistent or application-consistent snapshot in a flash (literally and figuratively) irrespective of the database size. While this helps them in protecting the database from any accidental changes or creating clones for development and test usage but cannot …
