Hi, I am planning to install a Splunk indexer on a VM machine and get data from forwarders which are installed on App Servers. Do you think there is any performance concern of installing indexer on a VM?
http://splunk-base.splunk.com/answers/298/can-i-run-splunk-in-a-vm-are-there-any-issues-or-tricks-i-...
and here for the requirements : http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Installation/Systemrequirements#Recommended_hardw...
but VM is usually suboptimal for I/O reasons.
