Hightower Posted February 8, 2011 Posted February 8, 2011 Just decided to call our new servers: DC1 - Thomas DC2 - Edward DC3 - Henry Management PC - SirTophamHatt NAS1 & NAS2 - Bill & Ben Media Server - Stepney (as our media server is an old SIMS server, brought back from retirement) ESX Server - Hank (biggest engine for the biggest server, hosting 8 vm's)
Fatmas Posted February 8, 2011 Posted February 8, 2011 As long as the names mean something so you know the function. Our Clickview video server is called "Lucas", which I think is very fitting.
irsprint84 Posted February 8, 2011 Posted February 8, 2011 I would hate names like that!! I go by my old managers way: sgs-dc-001 sgs-file-004 sgs-sql-001 etc... Used to be before I came stretford-01 , 02, 03 this gives a new person no clue what is what
bladedanny Posted February 8, 2011 Posted February 8, 2011 We only have 1-2 servers so at one schools I have Jupiter & Juno and at the other I have Zeus.
EduTech Posted February 8, 2011 Posted February 8, 2011 I do like to have structured names i.e. SCH-DC-01 / SCH-DC-02 / SCH-HYPERV-01 etc. but we used to have the fun names also! I think i called a Database Instance "Megatron" for our SharePoint Inst... few other crazy things but when we created all the new 2k8 boxes they were named properly. : ) James.
bladedanny Posted February 8, 2011 Posted February 8, 2011 I once had an ICT suite (if you can call it a suite) of 7 desktops so they were named Happy, Dopey, Grumpy etc. I found staff remembered which one they were working on when named like this.
Hightower Posted February 8, 2011 Author Posted February 8, 2011 I would hate names like that!! I go by my old managers way: sgs-dc-001 sgs-file-004 sgs-sql-001 etc... Used to be before I came stretford-01 , 02, 03 this gives a new person no clue what is what We currently have XXX-SVR-001 etc. Might seem structured but would you know what that server does? Without documentation, whether we use structured names or not, you wouldn't have the foggiest.
bossman Posted February 8, 2011 Posted February 8, 2011 We have one called Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious-01 and another called Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious-02 and these are just for creating magic and of course the administrator is known as .............MaryPoppins We find that daydreaming is a part of the fun like jumping in and out of paint pictures and laughing so hard we go up to the roof.............we just like having fun as work is so serious these days. What say's you Bert? Aaawwwww leeeeve it arrrt I eeze jus gointo cleen these ere chimmiinnies
webman Posted February 8, 2011 Posted February 8, 2011 We currently have XXX-SVR-001 etc. Might seem structured but would you know what that server does? Yep. BBS-WEB-001, BBS-VLE-001, BBS-XEN-001, BBS-MIS-001 - I wonder what they do?
Hightower Posted February 8, 2011 Author Posted February 8, 2011 Yep. BBS-WEB-001, BBS-VLE-001, BBS-XEN-001, BBS-MIS-001 - I wonder what they do? So do I..... BBS-WEB-001 - that must be hosting Joomla. BBS-VLE-001 - well, that's obviously an install of SharePoint. BBS-MIS-001 - that must be using CMIS right? Yeah, you can quickly see at a glance their rough jobs. But to actually know anything worth knowing about that server you're gonna need to see documention whether it's named in a structured format or not. XXX-SVR-001 may look nice and structured, but you don't know whether that's hosting our AV software, Lexia, which printers, users etc etc.
Disease Posted February 8, 2011 Posted February 8, 2011 We use greek gods and deities. Sophia, Chaos, Ares, Gaia, Cronus, Zeus etc
webman Posted February 8, 2011 Posted February 8, 2011 So do I..... BBS-WEB-001 - that must be hosting Joomla. BBS-VLE-001 - well, that's obviously an install of SharePoint. BBS-MIS-001 - that must be using CMIS right? No, but that's not relevant - I know its role. With Tom, Dick or Harry names, I have even less clue. Which is why documentation is important regardless of names Structured names like that also get grouped alphabetically in lists, which is useful.
irsprint84 Posted February 8, 2011 Posted February 8, 2011 So do I..... BBS-WEB-001 - that must be hosting Joomla. BBS-VLE-001 - well, that's obviously an install of SharePoint. BBS-MIS-001 - that must be using CMIS right? Yeah, you can quickly see at a glance their rough jobs. But to actually know anything worth knowing about that server you're gonna need to see documention whether it's named in a structured format or not. XXX-SVR-001 may look nice and structured, but you don't know whether that's hosting our AV software, Lexia, which printers, users etc etc. I have sgs-man-001 for management stuff like xen, av etc.. You cant 100% get everything but I had no documentation when I started so would have helped abit! Plus when I want to access exchange under panic its simple sgs-exch-001 not having to think if its humpty or numpty!
Hightower Posted February 8, 2011 Author Posted February 8, 2011 Plus when I want to access exchange under panic its simple sgs-exch-001 not having to think if its humpty or numpty! But how do you know it's sgs-exch-001 instead of sgs-exc-001? Because you learned it right? So how is that any different to learning that Thomas is the 1st DC, that Hank is the big ESXi server?
webman Posted February 8, 2011 Posted February 8, 2011 But how do you know it's sgs-exch-001 instead of sgs-exc-001? Because you learned it right? So how is that any different to learning that Thomas is the 1st DC, that Hank is the big ESXi server? The clue's in the name?
irsprint84 Posted February 8, 2011 Posted February 8, 2011 But how do you know it's sgs-exch-001 instead of sgs-exc-001? Because you learned it right? So how is that any different to learning that Thomas is the 1st DC, that Hank is the big ESXi server? Well its like programming variables I always ddi it to standard like intTeacherNumber I've read code that has random variable referencing, which isnt fun the next person! If you started at my place you always know that sgs- for every server (Stretford Grammar School) then role (dc, sp, file, sql) then all end in 001 unless more like file-002 etc.. I would hate to go into a enterprise and have random names
Hightower Posted February 8, 2011 Author Posted February 8, 2011 (edited) The clue's in the name? yeah, but could you come here and tell me what my zimbra server is called without looking? you'd need to look at documentation first. likewise, could you come here and tell me which DC lexia is installed to, without looking at documentation. Structured: XXX-DC-001 XXX-DC-002 XXX-DC-003 Tell me which of those hosts Lexia. Tell me which one of those hosts our AV. Tell me which one of those hosts Year 11 students' work. Non-Structured: Thomas Edward Henry Now answer those questions again. Edited February 8, 2011 by Hightower
Hightower Posted February 8, 2011 Author Posted February 8, 2011 Well its like programming variables I always ddi it to standard like intTeacherNumber I've read code that has random variable referencing, which isnt fun the next person! If you started at my place you always know that sgs- for every server (Stretford Grammar School) then role (dc, sp, file, sql) then all end in 001 unless more like file-002 etc.. I would hate to go into a enterprise and have random names But your names are still random for an outsider to come in. They are still going to need to poke around to find out what is stored where.
irsprint84 Posted February 8, 2011 Posted February 8, 2011 But how do you know it's sgs-exch-001 instead of sgs-exc-001? Because you learned it right? So how is that any different to learning that Thomas is the 1st DC, that Hank is the big ESXi server? Why couldnt hank be the sql box? (biggest box I have) or the big file server?
irsprint84 Posted February 8, 2011 Posted February 8, 2011 But your names are still random for an outsider to come in. They are still going to need to poke around to find out what is stored where. Even if I didnt leave any documentation you would just go into dns and guess that sgs-file-002 is a file server and sgs-dc-002 is a domain controller, not to hard but when I started this job I have stretford-01, 02, 03, 04, 05 what do all those have on them?
Hightower Posted February 8, 2011 Author Posted February 8, 2011 I really understand what you are saying, but at a glance (i.e. by looking at your server names) how would I know where your Year 11 kids are stored
EduTech Posted February 8, 2011 Posted February 8, 2011 yeah, but could you come here and tell me what my zimbra server is called without looking? you'd need to look at documentation first. likewise, could you come here and tell me which DC lexia is installed to, without looking at documentation. Structured: XXX-DC-001 XXX-DC-002 XXX-DC-003 Tell me which of those hosts Lexia. Tell me which one of those hosts our AV. Tell me which one of those hosts Year 11 students' work. Non-Structured: Thomas Edward Henry Now answer those questions again. DC-001 = Thomas DC-002 = Edward DC-003 = Henry
irsprint84 Posted February 8, 2011 Posted February 8, 2011 I really understand what you are saying, but at a glance (i.e. by looking at your server names) how would I know where your Year 11 kids are stored I would be mostly there by guessing file-001 to file-004 have files on them so narrows down to 4 servers then I would go into server manager -> file services -> share management and if keeping with constant names would be year11$ or intakeYEAR$
irsprint84 Posted February 8, 2011 Posted February 8, 2011 if one server called sgs-sql-001 then it should narrow down to one guess where sql is
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