Learn More and how to get help

How to get support

To get help with Splunk for VMware, log a support case via the Splunk Support Portal.

If your deployment is large or complex, engage a member of Splunk's Professional Services team. They will assist you in deploying Splunk for VMware.

Find more information about Splunk

You have a variety of options for finding more information about Splunk and Splunk for VMware:

• The core Splunk platform documentation
• Splunk Answers
• The #splunk IRC channel on EFNET

Watch the videos

If you are familiar with Splunk, but are not as familiar with VMware, we recommend that you watch the Splunk for VMware video before installing Splunk for VMware.

Install Splunk for VMware

Watch this three part video to see how to install Splunk for VMware.

Part 1: The video covers prerequisites, App architecture, and a high level overview of the major installation steps.

Name: Install Splunk for VMware - part 1

Duration: 8:56 minutes

Part 2: The video covers deploying and configuring the FA VM, and installing the VMware Perl SDK.

Name: Install Splunk for VMware - part 2

Duration: 10:27 minutes

Part 3: The video covers creating service accounts on ESX/ihosts and configuring data collection.

Name: Install Splunk for VMware - part 3

Duration: 10:59 minutes

Use Splunk for VMware

Watch this three part video to explore other things you can do with the data in the Splunk App for VMware.

Part 1: Name: Using the Splunk App for VMware, Part 1

Part 2: Name: Using the Splunk App for VMware - Part 2

Part 3: Name: Using the Splunk App for VMware - Part 3

Recommended reading

To learn more about using and searching in Splunk, see the "Splunk Tutorial" in the core Splunk documentation.

The following topics are also good starting points:

• "Apps and add-ons".
• "About indexes and indexers" in the Managing Indexers and Clusters manual.
• What Splunk can index in the Splunk Getting Data In Manual.
• About default fields in the Splunk Getting Data In Manual.
• Splunk's search language in the Splunk Search Reference Manual.

Related articles

To learn more about Splunk in a virtualized environment, you can read some of the related articles on Splunk and virtualization management.