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- Posted Re: Rebalancing Indexes On New Larger Index Nodes on Splunk Dev. 01-03-2018 07:10 AM
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01-03-2018
07:10 AM
Iguinn,
Thanks for the answer. Luckily our data set is small and likely not all required. I will attempt option B and report back with my findings.
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01-02-2018
01:56 PM
We are looking to upgrade our Splunk Indexers to a set of more performant AWS instances with more disk space available to them.
I was reading about data rebalancing and it said that it makes the assumption that the amount of disk space available was the same across all instances.
I was wondering if the following is possible:
Add the new larger index nodes to the index cluster
Start a data rebalance to have the data distributed across all now 5 nodes
Remove the original two smaller indexers
I understand that an alternative step might be to just rsync the data to the new nodes and pivot, but I would like to avoid the down time if I can.
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