In an existing Splunk environment, the new index buckets that are created each day are about half the size of the incoming dat a. Within each bucket…

To calculate the daily disk consumption per indexer in a cluster, several key factors are required. You must know the total daily indexing volume as the baseline. The replication factor (RF) is critical as it determines the total number of data copies stored across the cluster for availability. The search factor (SF) is also needed as it dictates how many of those copies are searchable, which can affect storage. Finally, to find the per indexer consumption, the total calculated storage must be divided by the number of peer nodes in the cluster.

A. The number of accelerated searches contributes to storage but is secondary to the core data replication determined by the RF.

C. The number of search heads is irrelevant to the storage calculations on the indexer tier.

D. This option omits the total daily indexing volume, which is the essential starting point for any storage calculation.

1. Splunk Enterprise Documentation, Managing Indexers and Clusters of Indexers, "Configure the replication factor". This section explains that RF determines the number of copies of each bucket, directly impacting total storage.

2. Splunk Enterprise Documentation, Capacity Planning Manual, "Storage". This manual details the formula for calculating total cluster storage, which includes daily data volume, replication factor, and the number of indexers.

3. Splunk Enterprise Documentation, Managing Indexers and Clusters of Indexers, "The basics of indexer cluster architecture". This document defines the roles of peer nodes, RF, and SF in a cluster.