Getting Data In

Does anyone have personal experience-based hardware recommendations for these requirements?

noybin
Communicator

Hello,

I need hardware recommendations for the following scenario:

1 Search Head
Indexer Cluster (search factor 2) (2 members)
1 Master Node
1 Heavy Forwarder (or cluster if possible)

7GB of events per day
50 alarms (no real time)
100 data sources

Also I would like to know if it is possible to have high availability on the heavy forwarders and how can it be achieved.

Thank you very much.

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

See the Splunk reference hardware specification at http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.6.3/Capacity/Referencehardware.

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noybin
Communicator

Thank's for your answer.

I've already read that document and it specifies different possible alternatives.

I was wondering if someone who has experience with a similar enviroment that mine, can recommend me based on the experience.

Thank's again

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

You should be fine going with the lowest specs in the "Reference host specification for distributed deployments" section. Treat your Master Node and Heavy Forwarder as search heads.

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noybin
Communicator

Thank you very much

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