nixen
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Re: server naming convention advice
said by tomkb  :We are bringing our first cluster servers online shortly. Need to name them, but not sure what to call them. My thinking is the name should be able to support 2 things. One, you may have more than 1 cluster. Two, you may have many nodes inside the cluster. Any advice or opinions? Overall, you need to know, what TYPE of naming scheme you want: technical (e.g., orclus01) or cutesie (e.g., bob).
For clusters, it depends on the type of cluster. If it's a compute cluster (e.g., a render farm) where you have the potential to add an infinite number of nodes, then cutsie names are kind of pointless.
If they are to be active/passive paired failover clusters, then twin names are common (frick and frack, heckle and jeckle, pollux and castor, etc.).
If they have the potential of growing, but by a finite size, then a naming theme like characters in a comic (Xmen and Brotherhood names are good in this regard) is fairly common.
Any way, if you can tell us the type of naming you're looking for, we can probably better help you with a convention. 
-tom
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dave
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not in ohio | I prefer 'cutesie' - I can remember bob, carol, ted, alice better than I can remember ussrv01a, ussrv512, ukeng21, etc. |
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sybille
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How about "fruit"? Then the clusters could be names things like "apple," orange," grape," etc. and the nodes in the clusters could be "seeds," "pit," "pulp," "peel," etc. Lol.
Or maybe you could choose a building or house name, and then the clusters could be different rooms and the nodes pieces of furniture within them.
Or "forest," with various "trees," each having different "leaves," "needles," "cones," "sap"...?
It's kind of fun to think of possibilities starting with a theme.  |
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nixen
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said by dave :I prefer 'cutesie' - I can remember bob, carol, ted, alice better than I can remember ussrv01a, ussrv512, ukeng21, etc. Likewise. People just tend to look askew at the names I chose. Our old DMZ web servers were "crash" and "burn". Used to have a development host at my previous job that I named "coredump". I named a four-node cluster after The Young Ones.
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said by sybille :How about "fruit"? Then the clusters could be names things like "apple," orange," grape," etc. and the nodes in the clusters could be "seeds," "pit," "pulp," "peel," etc. Lol. Or maybe you could choose a building or house name, and then the clusters could be different rooms and the nodes pieces of furniture within them. Or "forest," with various "trees," each having different "leaves," "needles," "cones," "sap"...? When I was at Bell Atalantic, I named our development lab's UNIX systems after demons. Ultimately had to change all their names because someone got "offended".
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we try to keep some comical, so if a service dies at 4am and our noc calls us, we can laugh while trying to wake up when told ' dhcp is down on yourmom ' |
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nixen
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| said by jmirabella :we try to keep some comical, so if a service dies at 4am and our noc calls us, we can laugh while trying to wake up when told ' dhcp is down on yourmom ' No, that would be "yourmom went down again", or, "dang, yourmom goes down more than a $15 whore".
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benyto
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said by nixen :I named a four-node cluster after The Young Ones. Nice. Not many fans out there. |
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| said by benyto :said by nixen :I named a four-node cluster after The Young Ones. Nice. Not many fans out there. My thoughts exactly - obscure but good choice!
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