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splunk indexers sharing a LUN

pshaddow
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can multiple splunk indexers share the same physical LUN without corrupting each others data?

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sbrant_splunk
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Splunk Employee

No, LUNS cannot be shared. That is not a Splunk limitation, it would be analogous to sharing a single hard drive between two computers.

sbrant_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

If you need to share between two operating systems, you will need to utilize a shared filesystem, using a protocol such as CIFS (Windows) or NFS. This is commonly referred to as NAS (Network Attached Storage).

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