https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Enterprise-Security/Splunk-Indexer-IOPS/m-p/322121#M2967 <P>Hello All</P> <P>Im currently trying to size up a indexer and have been told that what is needed is 1200 IOPS per disk .</P> <P>Being 1200 IOPS per disk means that we need to go all SSD , which of course blows the budget out .</P> <P>From what i can see its 1200 IOPS for the disk subsystem , which to me means the underlying groups of disks .</P> <P>A official reply from Splunk would be great and of course i welcome the forum experts who dedicate there time to answer </P> <P>Thanks in advance </P> Fri, 06 Apr 2018 07:56:25 GMT skiptdouglas 2018-04-06T07:56:25Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Enterprise-Security/Splunk-Indexer-IOPS/m-p/322121#M2967 <P>Hello All</P> <P>Im currently trying to size up a indexer and have been told that what is needed is 1200 IOPS per disk .</P> <P>Being 1200 IOPS per disk means that we need to go all SSD , which of course blows the budget out .</P> <P>From what i can see its 1200 IOPS for the disk subsystem , which to me means the underlying groups of disks .</P> <P>A official reply from Splunk would be great and of course i welcome the forum experts who dedicate there time to answer </P> <P>Thanks in advance </P> Fri, 06 Apr 2018 07:56:25 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Enterprise-Security/Splunk-Indexer-IOPS/m-p/322121#M2967 skiptdouglas 2018-04-06T07:56:25Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Enterprise-Security/Splunk-Indexer-IOPS/m-p/322122#M2968 <P>The figure is per indexer, not per individual disk.</P> <P><A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.0.3/Capacity/Referencehardware#Disk_subsystem_information_for_higher-performance_specifications">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.0.3/Capacity/Referencehardware#Disk_subsystem_information_for_higher-performance_specifications</A></P> Fri, 06 Apr 2018 08:27:45 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Enterprise-Security/Splunk-Indexer-IOPS/m-p/322122#M2968 martin_mueller 2018-04-06T08:27:45Z