https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Disk-IO-requirements/m-p/104973#M1257 <P><A href="http://splunk-base.splunk.com/answers/298/can-i-run-splunk-in-a-vm-are-there-any-issues-or-tricks-i-should-be-aware-of">http://splunk-base.splunk.com/answers/298/can-i-run-splunk-in-a-vm-are-there-any-issues-or-tricks-i-should-be-aware-of</A></P> Fri, 20 Jul 2012 23:26:03 GMT gkanapathy 2012-07-20T23:26:03Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Disk-IO-requirements/m-p/104972#M1256 <P>Hi,<BR /> I am planning to install a Splunk indexer on a VM machine and get data from forwarders which are installed on App Servers.<BR /> Do you think there is any performance concern of installing indexer on a VM?</P> Fri, 20 Jul 2012 22:51:25 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Disk-IO-requirements/m-p/104972#M1256 MJ 2012-07-20T22:51:25Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Disk-IO-requirements/m-p/104973#M1257 <P><A href="http://splunk-base.splunk.com/answers/298/can-i-run-splunk-in-a-vm-are-there-any-issues-or-tricks-i-should-be-aware-of">http://splunk-base.splunk.com/answers/298/can-i-run-splunk-in-a-vm-are-there-any-issues-or-tricks-i-should-be-aware-of</A></P> Fri, 20 Jul 2012 23:26:03 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Disk-IO-requirements/m-p/104973#M1257 gkanapathy 2012-07-20T23:26:03Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Disk-IO-requirements/m-p/104974#M1258 <P>and here for the requirements :<BR /> <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Installation/Systemrequirements#Recommended_hardware">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Installation/Systemrequirements#Recommended_hardware</A></P> <P>but VM is usually suboptimal for I/O reasons.</P> Sat, 21 Jul 2012 01:06:38 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Disk-IO-requirements/m-p/104974#M1258 yannK 2012-07-21T01:06:38Z