Running Splunk on Encripted HDD by BitLocker in Windows server?

[melonman]

Hi,

I would like to know if anyone is running Splunk Indexer on encripted HDD by BitLocker in Windows?

Not recommended, Not supported, No problem at all?
Any comment would be appreciated.

Thank you,

[MuS]

wow - first thought was: Server will crash in the middle of the night.....who will enter the unlock pin?

[dkuk]

I think you'd have to establish a procedure/contingency for that for sure 😉

[dkuk · Accepted solution]

Sorry I haven't tried this but did you ever test Bitlocker? I'm interested to know how much Bitlocker slows things down. As Splunk is heavily IO intensive, any encryption is going to slow things down. It's just to what extent each option does it.