Platform and hardware requirements

Splunk Enterprise requirements

• Splunk App for VMware works on Splunk Enterprise deployed in a *nix environment. See "System requirements" in the Splunk Enterprise Installation Manual.

• Splunk Enterprise 6.0.6 or later
• Splunk Enterprise 6.1.5 or later
• Splunk Enterprise 6.2.0 or later

• A default Splunk Enterprise configuration with a licensing volume that can support approximately 300MB of data per host per day.
• A Splunk search head that runs on a 64-bit version of Linux.
• Splunk Indexers provisioned according to the guidelines in "Splunk Enterprise capacity planning".

Distributed Collection Scheduler requirements

These supporting add-ons support the Distributed Collection Scheduler in the Splunk App for VMware. They are versioned separately to the Splunk App for VMware. It is important to note the versions installed if you have Splunk App for NetApp ONTAP installed as it also uses the Distributed Collection Scheduler. See "Prepare Splunk App for NetApp Data ONTAP".

• SA-Hydra version 4.0.1.
• SA-Utils version 3.1.3.

Supported versions

Splunk App for VMware supports many VMware product versions.

• VMware vSphere versions 4.1, 5.0, 5.0 Update 1, 5.1, 5.5, and 5.5a.
• ESXi 4.1, 5.0, 5.0 Update 1, 5.1, 5.5 on 64-bit x86 CPUs, and 5.5 Update 1.
• vCenter Server on a Windows operating system.
• Linux-based vCenter Server Appliance. Collect API data and syslog data using Splunk App for VMware. You can also collect VMware vCenter Server Linux Appliance log data. See "Set up the Splunk App for VMware to collect log data".

Splunk App for VMware supports vCenter Server systems in Linked Mode. Splunk App for VMware collects API data for vCenter Server systems in a linked pool after you add them to the Collection Configuration dashboard in Splunk App for VMware. Splunk App for VMware does not recognize vCenter Servers in a linked pool that are not included in the data collection configuration.

Supported browsers

• Mozilla Firefox
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 and 10
• Apple Safari
• Google Chrome

Splunk App for VMware does not support Internet Explorer 8 or Internet Explorer 9 Compatibility Mode.