How to move index to new partition in a cluster?

[Chiranjeev88]

Hi All,

We have an index that is growing very rapidly and we want to now move it to a new partition specifically for that index in our cluster ,what steps should i follow to do that and with minimal downtime  ?

Thanks and regards,

Chiranjeev Singh

[richgalloway]

I was going to answer this question, but then I found this writeup which is much better than what I would have written.

https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/How-to-move-index-from-one-hard-drive-to-ano...