This design includes the following new content as compared to the previous reference architecture from Dell Technologies entitled Ready Solutions for Data Analytics: Splunk Enterprise on Dell Infrastructure Reference Architecture Guide:
- Splunk Enterprise 8.2.3.3
- Implementation for Splunk on containers, rather than bare metal, on a cloud-native Kubernetes platform
- Support for Splunk SmartStore data management capability. Splunk SmartStore enables indexed data to reside either locally or on an external or remote storage tier for scalability and performance.
- Validation of containerized applications: Splunk Machine Learning Toolkit (MLTK), Deep Learning Toolkit (DLTK), and Splunk Essentials for Predictive Maintenance
- The latest Dell infrastructure, including PowerEdge servers and PowerSwitch network switches
- Support for Dell Elastic Cloud Storage ( ECS), an enterprise-class object storage platform used for SmartStore-based storage tiering and storage of cold-bucket indexed data.
- Focus on predictive maintenance as a primary use case, using data from the Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller ( iDRAC) interface on PowerEdge servers as a sample dataset.