Architecting Splunk Enterprise Deployments

Module 1 – Introduction

• Overview of the Splunk deployment planning process and associated tools

Module 2 – Project Requirements

• Identify critical information about environment, volume, users, and requirements
• Review checklists and resources to aid in collecting requirements

Module 3 – Infrastructure Planning: Index Design

• Design and size indexes
• Estimate storage requirements
• Identify relevant apps 

Module 4 – Infrastructure Planning: Resource Planning

• List sizing factors for servers
• Describe how reference hardware is used to scale deployments
• Identify the impact of clustering for index replication and for search heads

Module 5 - Clustering Overview

• Describe the different clustering capabilities
• Introduce the concepts of indexer and search head clustering

Module 6 - Forwarder and Deployment Best Practices

• Review types of forwarders
• Describe how to manage forwarder installation
• Review configuration management for all Splunk components, using Splunk deployment tools
• Provide best practices for a Splunk deployment

Module 7 - Integration 

• Describe integration methods
• Identify common integration points

Module 8 – Performance Monitoring and Tuning

• Use the Monitoring Console to track test environment performance
• List options to fine tune performance for production environment

Module 9 – Use Cases

• Provide example architecture topologies 
• Discuss different architecture options based on use case