Data replication and site replication in a clustered computing environment

A method, comprising:

• receiving, at a selected indexer within a plurality of indexers in a cluster, data from a forwarder indexer, wherein the selected indexer is designated as a primary indexer for the data, wherein the primary indexer is operable to respond to search queries pertaining to the data, wherein the cluster comprises a plurality of sites, wherein each site of the plurality of sites comprises a subset of the plurality of indexers;
• receiving, at the selected indexer, data replication instructions from a master node of the cluster, wherein the data replication instructions identify a number of other indexers in the cluster for storing a replicated copy of the data determined in accordance with a replication factor configured for the cluster, and wherein the data replication instructions further identify a number of sites from the plurality of sites across which to store the replicated copy of the data determined in accordance with a site replication factor;
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• transmitting, from the selected indexer, the data to the other indexers for replication.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-executable instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

• receiving, at a selected indexer within a plurality of indexers in a cluster, data from a forwarder indexer, wherein the selected indexer is designated as a primary indexer for the data, wherein the primary indexer is operable to respond to search queries pertaining to the data, wherein the cluster comprises a plurality of sites, wherein each site of the plurality of sites comprises a subset of the plurality of indexers;
• receiving, at the selected indexer, data replication instructions from a master node of the cluster, wherein the data replication instructions identify a number of other indexers in the cluster for storing a replicated copy of the data determined in accordance with a replication factor configured for the cluster, and wherein the data replication instructions further identify a number of sites from the plurality of sites across which to store the replicated copy of the data determined in accordance with a site replication factor;
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• transmitting, from the selected indexer, the data to the other indexers for replication

A system comprising:

• at least one memory storing computer-executable instructions;
• and
• at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor is configured to access the at least one memory and to execute the computer-executable instructions to:
• receive, at a selected indexer within a plurality of indexers in a cluster, data from a forwarder indexer, wherein the selected indexer is designated as a primary indexer for the data, wherein the primary indexer is operable to respond to search queries pertaining to the data, wherein the cluster comprises a plurality of sites, wherein each site of the plurality of sites comprises a subset of the plurality of indexers;
• receive, at the selected indexer, data replication instructions from a master node of the cluster, wherein the data replication instructions identifies a number of other indexers in the cluster for storing a replicated copy of the data determined in accordance with a replication factor configured for the cluster, and wherein the data replication instructions further identifies a number of sites from the plurality of sites across which to store the replicated copy of the data determined in accordance with a site replication factor;
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• transmit, from the selected indexer, the data to the other indexers for replication