If you want to deploy DB Connect to Victoria Experience, see Install an add-on for Splunk Cloud Platform for details. You can only deploy DB Connect on Victoria Experience using Search Head instances. Search Head instances on Victoria Experience already have a supported version of JRE installed. If you install DB connect on a single instance then you can use full functionality on search heads. If you install DB Connect on search head cluster environments, consider limitation for setting up DB connect on distributed environment describer in Performance considerations in distributed environments. Start the DB Connect installation process:

1. Splunk leaves the outbound ports closed by default on Victoria Experience. Splunk Cloud Platform provides the Admin Config Service (ACS) API which you can use to open ports to allow outbound network connections to specific IP subnets programmatically. For details on how to use the ACS API see ACS API Documentation
2. Follow the instructions to install DB Connect on a Search Head
3. Install a JDBC driver add-on for your database. See new drivers using JDBC Driver addonsJDBC driver add-ons JDBC driver add-ons. If an add-on is not available for your database, or you require a different version of the driver than provided by the add-on, contact Splunk Support for help.
4. After installing DB Connect and restarting Splunk, open DB Connect.
5. Create a database identity and set up a database connection.
6. Create a new database input and use it as a data input in a Splunk search.