Deployment Architecture

Will Search Head Pooling work in Splunk 6.4.1?

a212830
Champion

Hi,

We are upgrading to Splunk 6.4.1, but in multiple stages, the second stage being migrating to Search Head Clustering. Will Search Head Pooling work in Splunk 6.4.1? I know that it's deprecated, but will it still function?

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esix_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

It will still function, but as you know, it's deprecated. I'm not sure if support will even officially support it also.

Upgrade-wise, follow the standard SHP upgrade process and it should work.

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ddrillic
Ultra Champion

According to Deprecated features

it should work and probably supported.

It says -
-- Previously deprecated features that still work
-- 6.2.x:
-- Search Head Pooling over the Network File System (NFS) protocol. As an alternative, configure search head clustering.

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