Splunk Vcpu licensing

[L_Petch]

Hello,

Apologies as this has probably been asked before. With the Splunk vCPU licensing is the license per cluster or VM. For example if you have a 24 vCPU license is this the CPU usage allowance for the whole cluster or 24 vCPU per VM? 

[kiran_panchavat]

@L_Petch 

The total vCPU count across all Splunk Enterprise  count towards the vCPU licensed capacity. If you have a 24 vCPU license, this means that the combined total of vCPUs assigned to all your Splunk Enterprise instances should not exceed 24. This is not a per-VM allocation but an aggregate limit across your deployment.

please refer to Splunk's official documentation on How Splunk Enterprise licensing works - Splunk Documentation

https://www.splunk.com/en_us/legal/licensed-capacity.html?locale=en_us 

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/9.4.0/Admin/TypesofSplunklicenses 

https://conf.splunk.com/files/2020/slides/PLA1520C.pdf