Deployment Architecture

Cluster and Non-cluster Indexer

ayushchoudhary
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Please help me to know which is better clustered Indexers and non-clustered indexers?
Key differences between clustered Indexers and Non-clustered Indexers?
When to deploy clustered Indexers and when to deploy non-clustered indexers?

I have checked a lot of sites but the above questions are still not answered.. Please help.

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Mayurmpatil
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Obviously go with clustered indexers for high availability and disaster recovery. also it depends on your requirement as well.

Use below document which shows the key difference .

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.2.1/Indexer/Keydifferences

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