Operational Intelligence and machine generated data have been very hot topics lately as organizations are beginning to realize how valuable this data is for the business. For the last few years, Splunk has been the leader in this space with their all-encompassing platform that enables the ability to collect, search and analyze machine generated data. (Not up to speed on this yet? Check out my other blog on getting started with machine generated data) Dell and Splunk have had a tremendous partnership over the past couple years that is based on the premise that we offer market leading infrastructure that is optimal for Splunk’s world class analytics platform for machine generated data. A couple weeks ago, we took this one step further… I’m excited to announce the release of the Solution Guide for Machine Analytics with Splunk Enterprise on VxRack Flex 1000! With this, Dell now has a validated rack server scale, hyper-converged infrastructure solution for Splunk that has been jointly validated by Splunk & Dell.
Why is this important?
Having this solution that has been jointly validated by both Splunk and Dell to “meet or exceed Splunk’s performance benchmarks” gives users a higher degree of confidence in the environment. With this solution the performance needed to run Splunk effectively and gain the valuable insights to make critical IT and business decisions will be there. Our solutions engineering team along with Splunk put hundreds of engineering hours into designing specific configurations based on a variety of different deployment scenarios and rigorously tested them to ensure performance. The solutions guide gives you not only those configurations but also implementation guidelines and deployment practices. All of this equals lower risk, quicker time to value and validated for performance…can’t ask for anything better.
How is VxRack Optimal for Splunk?
VxRack provides flexible, rack scale, hyper-converged infrastructure that allows you to use the hypervisor of your choice or bare metal as well as the ability to start small but scale-out to thousands of nodes. With VxRack you are given the flexibility to optimize your tiering for Splunk by putting Hot and Warm buckets in SSD while using HHD or even Isilon scale-out NAS for your cold bucket needs (Solution guide shows how to use Isilon for cold tiering). You also get to enjoy the benefits of Software Defined Storage and data services that are essential in today’s data center. The best part is that VxRack gives a turnkey experience that is engineered and designed to be ready to run, giving you a quicker time to insight and value. Additionally, with single support and life-cycle management for your infrastructure you lower complexity and reduce risk and costs. All of this equals great performance, economical tiering structure & easy to deploy and manage infrastructure that is validated to run Splunk.
