How to move index to new partition in a cluster?

Chiranjeev88 · ‎03-03-2023

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 · ‎03-04-2023

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...

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How to move index to new partition in a cluster?

capacity planning

indexer clustering

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Observe and Secure All Apps with Splunk

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