How to implement a test environment for our distributed search deployment?

[Jackre1]

Hello splunkers,

We are planning to implement test environment for our distributed environment.
Can anyone provide me a clear documentation to follow?

Regards.

[nkwong_splunk · Accepted solution]

Here is the Splunk documentation on how to deploy various distributed architectures ranging from small to large enterprise deployments.
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.3.2/Deploy/Searchheadwithindexers

For each deployment scenario, the documentation provides an implementation framework to help guide you during the deployment of your chosen Splunk architecture. Here is an example of the implementation framework for a small deployment with a single search head and multiple indexers.
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.3.2/Deploy/Searchheadwithindexers#Implementation_frame...