Recently I was working with a client that was Splunk savvy and they wanted to try to implement something that was, what I would consider, off the beaten path.

Here is the challenge:  

This client was looking for a way to be able to take advantage of having multiple search heads for high resource availability and resiliency, without taking a hit on performance. One approach to go about providing high availability and resiliency of search heads is to use a Splunk feature called...