https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Multiple-Splunk-indexer-with-same-SPLUNK-DB-location/m-p/408372#M72402 <P>Why would you do this? Working with VMs makes this kind of thing easy so you should not need 2 indexers at the same time. Your forwarders can buffer events for the short time that it would take to upgrade your VM/splunk and have it come back up. You are overcomplicating your situation.</P> Sun, 28 Jul 2019 12:48:20 GMT woodcock 2019-07-28T12:48:20Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Multiple-Splunk-indexer-with-same-SPLUNK-DB-location/m-p/408371#M72401 <P>Hi,<BR /> I have $SPLUNK_DB set up in a NAS storage. But the indexer is installed in a VM (say VM1) running on splunk version 6.3.4.<BR /> Now I want to migrate the indexers to another VM (VM2) with newer splunk version 6.6.12 keeping the same NAS location as $SPLUNK_DB.<BR /> Is it possible? I have heard that no two indexer will see each other's indexed files. Is that true?<BR /> In that case what approach I can take to migrate my indexer?</P> Wed, 30 Sep 2020 01:27:55 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Multiple-Splunk-indexer-with-same-SPLUNK-DB-location/m-p/408371#M72401 sujoybose77 2020-09-30T01:27:55Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Multiple-Splunk-indexer-with-same-SPLUNK-DB-location/m-p/408372#M72402 <P>Why would you do this? Working with VMs makes this kind of thing easy so you should not need 2 indexers at the same time. Your forwarders can buffer events for the short time that it would take to upgrade your VM/splunk and have it come back up. You are overcomplicating your situation.</P> Sun, 28 Jul 2019 12:48:20 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Multiple-Splunk-indexer-with-same-SPLUNK-DB-location/m-p/408372#M72402 woodcock 2019-07-28T12:48:20Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Multiple-Splunk-indexer-with-same-SPLUNK-DB-location/m-p/408373#M72403 <P>Woodcock, We have organization limitations on VM storage that's not enough to hold large amount of indexed data</P> Mon, 29 Jul 2019 19:08:21 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Multiple-Splunk-indexer-with-same-SPLUNK-DB-location/m-p/408373#M72403 sujoybose77 2019-07-29T19:08:21Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Multiple-Splunk-indexer-with-same-SPLUNK-DB-location/m-p/408374#M72404 <P>You need to clarify your question. It doesn't make sense to me.</P> Mon, 29 Jul 2019 20:58:24 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Multiple-Splunk-indexer-with-same-SPLUNK-DB-location/m-p/408374#M72404 woodcock 2019-07-29T20:58:24Z