Summary

Whew! We've accomplished a lot of difficult work in this chapter—collecting data from our user groups, selecting the best Splunk configuration to build, learning enough about replication and search factors, indexing buckets, and search head clusters to inform our design decisions, and finally, selecting our hardware options and calculating how much disk space we'll need and how many indexers will be needed to support out expected data ingestion volumes.

After you take a short break, we'll get started installing and configuring our Splunk Enterprise deployment. Don't be long!