Accelerating Data Transfer Efficiency: Improving Splunk Migration Speeds for a Leading Vehicle Remarketing Service Provider

Solution

The Professional Services (PS) team, supported by Subject-Matter Experts (SMEs), conducted a thorough investigation to identify potential areas for optimization. During this process, we discovered that the default settings in the run-book limited the migration process to only 16 parallel threads, while the system was capable of handling up to 1,000 threads, given the hardware constraints.

After careful testing and adjustments, we increased the number of parallel threads to 300, ensuring the system operated within its optimal capacity. Additionally, we fine-tuned several parameters to further streamline the migration process. As a result, the transfer rate drastically improved, rising from 5TB per day to 6TB per hour.