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: …
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 …
