https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/VMware-ESX-Snapshot/m-p/43238#M8062 <P>You can take a snapshot and it will be consistent.</P> Fri, 03 Sep 2010 23:58:48 GMT gkanapathy 2010-09-03T23:58:48Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/VMware-ESX-Snapshot/m-p/43237#M8061 <P>ESX environment with Splunk in a VM:</P> <UL> <LI>Splunk 4.1.4 RHEL4 64bit</LI> <LI>configured as indexer</LI> <LI>$SPLUNK_DB on SAN (in VMware context)</LI> <LI>everything on ext3 filesystem</LI> </UL> <P>Is it possible to make a complete snapshot (in ESX Manager) with an active running Splunk instance ?</P> <P>Or is it required to shutdown Splunk ?</P> Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:21:15 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/VMware-ESX-Snapshot/m-p/43237#M8061 meno 2010-09-03T13:21:15Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/VMware-ESX-Snapshot/m-p/43238#M8062 <P>You can take a snapshot and it will be consistent.</P> Fri, 03 Sep 2010 23:58:48 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/VMware-ESX-Snapshot/m-p/43238#M8062 gkanapathy 2010-09-03T23:58:48Z