https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/System-requirements-like-RAM-cores-etc-if-we-use-the/m-p/319790#M4424 <P>Best practice is to not deploy Splunk infrastructure as a VM, regardless of settings.</P> Sun, 10 Sep 2017 04:11:53 GMT woodcock 2017-09-10T04:11:53Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/System-requirements-like-RAM-cores-etc-if-we-use-the/m-p/319788#M4422 <P>Hi, </P> <P>What are the system requirements like RAM &amp; cores etc. If we use the departmental architecture in Virtual machine.</P> Thu, 07 Sep 2017 04:40:05 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/System-requirements-like-RAM-cores-etc-if-we-use-the/m-p/319788#M4422 raghu_vedic 2017-09-07T04:40:05Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/System-requirements-like-RAM-cores-etc-if-we-use-the/m-p/319789#M4423 <P>If you're wanting to know how to deploy Splunk in a Virtual Environment, you should read this first : <A href="https://www.splunk.com/pdfs/technical-briefs/splunk-deploying-vmware-tech-brief.pdf">https://www.splunk.com/pdfs/technical-briefs/splunk-deploying-vmware-tech-brief.pdf</A> </P> <P>Thats a good starting point. And from what you are calling a departmental architecture, this could be a standalone or distributed environment depending on your use cases and daily volumes of indexing.</P> Thu, 07 Sep 2017 04:45:27 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/System-requirements-like-RAM-cores-etc-if-we-use-the/m-p/319789#M4423 esix_splunk 2017-09-07T04:45:27Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/System-requirements-like-RAM-cores-etc-if-we-use-the/m-p/319790#M4424 <P>Best practice is to not deploy Splunk infrastructure as a VM, regardless of settings.</P> Sun, 10 Sep 2017 04:11:53 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/System-requirements-like-RAM-cores-etc-if-we-use-the/m-p/319790#M4424 woodcock 2017-09-10T04:11:53Z