This design guide first presents some of the key concepts of predictive maintenance in the context of IT operations environments, along with the goals that the underlying design is intended to achieve. Then it describes the solution architecture for cloud native Splunk Enterprise with SmartStore, including the container network design, the physical network design, the server configurations, the storage design, and the container architecture.
In this design, Splunk Enterprise runs in containers with Kubernetes orchestration. The container platform that we have chosen is the Dell Validated Design for Analytics — Data Lakehouse. It includes the Robin Cloud Native Platform ( Robin CNP) from Robin.io as the Kubernetes layer.
Then the predictive maintenance use cases are described, showing how using iDRAC telemetry data from Dell PowerEdge servers with Splunk can be used to gain predictive insights for preventative maintenance.
Lastly, Dell guidelines for implementation and deployment, best practices for Splunk and SmartStore implementation for this application, and infrastructure sizing recommendations are provided.