hello there, I suppose you mean you plan to test the Splunk Cloud product, e.g. https://www.splunk.com/en_us/products/splunk-cloud.html in that case, when looking at this diagram from docs on app for VMware, http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/VMW/3.3.2/Installation/Platformandhardwarerequirements you will want to change the indexer (on the right) to be a Heavy Forwarder that sends all relevant VMware data to the cloud the apps that supposed to be on indexer are to be installed on HF and the cloud indexer: http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/VMW/3.3.2/Installation/DownloadandinstalltheSplunkAppforVMware Note, it can be sometimes complex to install the app for VMware, therefore it is recommended in docs to always install it first on a test environment and then scale: http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/VMW/3.3.2/Installation/Planyourinstallation will also suggest to use Splunk Professional Services for the job hope it helps. ... View more