Plan your installation in a test environment

Install the Splunk App for VMware into a test environment before you install it in a production environment. You can work out the complexities and issues that you might encounter in your deployment.

After you install the Splunk App for VMware in your test environment, scale the deployment with more advanced Splunk platform deployment features, such as search head clustering and indexer clustering.

If you do not have access to a test environment, limit the number of hosts and vCenter Servers you use when you first deploy the app, and then add complexity after your initial setup is successful.

Splunk App for VMware sample test environment

See the Set up your system for the Splunk Add-on for VMware section of the Splunk Add-on for VMware manual to see a sample test environment.