Hi,
I have $SPLUNK_DB set up in a NAS storage. But the indexer is installed in a VM (say VM1) running on splunk version 6.3.4.
Now I want to migrate the indexers to another VM (VM2) with newer splunk version 6.6.12 keeping the same NAS location as $SPLUNK_DB.
Is it possible? I have heard that no two indexer will see each other's indexed files. Is that true?
In that case what approach I can take to migrate my indexer?
Why would you do this? Working with VMs makes this kind of thing easy so you should not need 2 indexers at the same time. Your forwarders can buffer events for the short time that it would take to upgrade your VM/splunk and have it come back up. You are overcomplicating your situation.
Woodcock, We have organization limitations on VM storage that's not enough to hold large amount of indexed data
You need to clarify your question. It doesn't make sense to me.