Splunk® App for VMware (Legacy)

Installation and Configuration Guide

On August 31, 2022, the Splunk App for VMware will reach its end of life. After this date, Splunk will no longer maintain or develop this product. The functionality in this app is migrating to a content pack in Data Integrations. Learn about the Content Pack for VMware Dashboards and Reports.
This documentation does not apply to the most recent version of Splunk® App for VMware (Legacy). For documentation on the most recent version, go to the latest release.

Deployment considerations

Performance

Performance requirements depend upon the scale of your Splunk deployment.

If you expect to scale your Splunk deployment beyond 1-2GB per day of indexed data, and expect to have more than 2 users searching this data ( using the Splunk App for VMware) concurrently, you should consider distributing your deployment.

For information on capacity planning, see "Hardware capacity planning" in the Splunk Installation Manual.

Storage

As with all Splunk deployments, it's important to have sufficient disk space to accommodate the volume of data processed by your indexers.

For more information on what to consider regarding your data storage and data volume requirements using Splunk, see "Estimate your storage requirements" in the Splunk Installation Manual.

Licensing

As with any Splunk deployment, your licensing requirements are driven by the volume of data your indexer processes. Refer to the "Storage considerations" section above to determine your licensing volume. Contact your Splunk sales representative to purchase additional license volume.

Refer to "How Splunk licensing works" in the Splunk Admin Manual for more information about Splunk licensing.

Last modified on 03 November, 2014
Installation checklist   Requirements for collecting data

This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® App for VMware (Legacy): 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 2.0


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