https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/Where-is-building-lab-splunk-with-free-or-cheap-virtual-server/m-p/630248#M10930 <P>I know of no service that will give you machines of enough power to run these components for free.</P><P>Depending on your use case (what you want to train in this lab), you might get away with a relatively low-spec machines (way lower than the reference machines) but be prepared for the environment to run unreliably, be prone to hangs, oom-kills and such.</P><P>If you have a linux host around somewhere, you can however try to run a KVM virtualization host with KSM turned on which will give you a greatly reduced memory usage if the VMs are not heavily used and mostly share the same memory pages due to common code base.</P> Thu, 09 Feb 2023 09:31:04 GMT PickleRick 2023-02-09T09:31:04Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/Where-is-building-lab-splunk-with-free-or-cheap-virtual-server/m-p/630244#M10929 <P>Hello everyone,&nbsp;</P><P>I'm new on splunk.&nbsp;</P><P>I want to build mini lab splunk with virtual machine.</P><P>Can someone else can share me if you know :&nbsp;</P><P>Do you know where i can buy/use cheap/free resources virtual server that are configurable enough for lab splunk building.</P><P>I'm plan on building 8 server with roles like that :</P><P>- 2 forwarder</P><P>- 3 index</P><P>- 1 cluster manager</P><P>- 1 search head</P><P>- 1 license manager / deployer server / monitoring console.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Hope someone can help. Thanks a lot.&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Thu, 09 Feb 2023 09:01:13 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/Where-is-building-lab-splunk-with-free-or-cheap-virtual-server/m-p/630244#M10929 hungtrn 2023-02-09T09:01:13Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/Where-is-building-lab-splunk-with-free-or-cheap-virtual-server/m-p/630248#M10930 <P>I know of no service that will give you machines of enough power to run these components for free.</P><P>Depending on your use case (what you want to train in this lab), you might get away with a relatively low-spec machines (way lower than the reference machines) but be prepared for the environment to run unreliably, be prone to hangs, oom-kills and such.</P><P>If you have a linux host around somewhere, you can however try to run a KVM virtualization host with KSM turned on which will give you a greatly reduced memory usage if the VMs are not heavily used and mostly share the same memory pages due to common code base.</P> Thu, 09 Feb 2023 09:31:04 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/Where-is-building-lab-splunk-with-free-or-cheap-virtual-server/m-p/630248#M10930 PickleRick 2023-02-09T09:31:04Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/Where-is-building-lab-splunk-with-free-or-cheap-virtual-server/m-p/631374#M10937 <P>So long as you're not doing performance testing you may consider running splunk using docker.&nbsp; Ive been able to spin up 3-node index clusters with an ITSI Search head, on an 8-core i9, 32GB (w/1TB SSD) macbook laptop, even running ITSI and another container running oracle. if you have a few machines, you'd be pretty set. again, so long as you're not doing real load testing, you can spin up an environment in a few seconds, and test your apps and inputs.</P><P><A href="https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/9.0.3/Installation/DeployandrunSplunkEnterpriseinsideDockercontainers" target="_blank">https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/9.0.3/Installation/DeployandrunSplunkEnterpriseinsideDockercontainers</A></P><P>Just be aware, the free version of splunk does not support clustering or premium splunk apps.</P> Fri, 17 Feb 2023 17:22:03 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/Where-is-building-lab-splunk-with-free-or-cheap-virtual-server/m-p/631374#M10937 nyc_jason 2023-02-17T17:22:03Z