Transitioning to virtualized servers and validations

[danielbb]

We are in the midst of a virtualization project, and we are looking for a way to sanity check all the different components. I know that the MC does some of it, but I’m not sure if it covers all aspects. I’m thinking about scripted input, and a dedicated dashboard to monitor and verify all the settings. Do you have any other suggestions, by any chance?

[isoutamo]

Hi
I’m not sure what you are virtualizing and what you want to monitor or are you asking something else? Are you talking about virtualization of splunk infrastructure or are you monitoring your virtualization environment like VMware?
r. Ismo

[danielbb]

Sorry for not being clear. The process of building these VMs is ongoing, and during this process we would like to be absolutely sure that these VMs are ready to host all the Splunk components. For example. our SE suggested to check the following -

• THP turned off.
• All internal logs are being forwarded to indexer tier.
• MC set-up
• Splunk running as correct user
• Splunk restart enabled

So I wonder what would be the best way to ensure that these VMs are built correctly?

I’m thinking about scripted input, and a dedicated dashboard to monitor and verify all the settings. Do you have any other suggestions, by any chance?