This nine-hour course focuses on large enterprise deployments. Students will learn steps and best practices for planning, data collection and sizing for a distributed deployment. Workshop-style labs challenge students to make design decisions about an example enterprise deployment.

• Requirements definition
• Index and resource planning
• Clustering Overview
• Forwarder and Deployment
• Integration
• Performance Monitoring and Tuning
• Use Cases

Module 1 – Introduction

• Overview of the Splunk deployment planning process and associated tools

Module 2 – Project Requirements

Module 3 – Infrastructure Planning: Index Design

Module 4 – Infrastructure Planning: Resource Planning

Module 5 - Clustering Overview

Module 6 - Forwarder and Deployment Best Practices

Module 7 - Integration

Module 8 – Performance Monitoring and Tuning

Module 9 – Use Cases