What do you name your servers?

Hamish

Hamish

Hamish

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Just wondering what everyone named their servers?

Ours are all named after european cities, we have Oslo, Rome, Madrid, Milan, Lisbon etc.

One of our clients name theirs after types of trees, another after composers.
 
we have so many, the UK ones are w3gbbgkNN where NN is an incremental number.

when the company was small, apparently they were all named after Star Trek characters :rolleyes:
 
Country/Region/Company 3 character, basic function 3 character, sequential 3 digit. Avoid putting site, location or overly specific function into IDs at all costs due to being bitten on more than one occasion by server moves, role changes etc.

In AD anyway you can put a decent description, so we use that if we have to be more specific.
 
Last place of work was all types of fish, then moved on to birds and other animals.

Current place is purely functional, usually along the lines of location, function, then a number, eg BRUMFILE01 would be birmingham file server 1.
 
File and print servers are called after the the cities/towns in which they are located then the functional sql servers have their own functional names.
 
PDC
ICT-DC
FIT1-DC
FIT2-DC
MC-DC
TIT-**-DC
TIT-UL-DC
TIT-L-DC

^ the various domain controller names

FS1 - fileserver
webapps - ill let you guess what thats for
exchange1 - mail server, used to be just exchange but the old box had a bit of a mishap
VM1 and VM2 - the names for the physical virtual machine boxes which contain various DC, the webapps box etc
proxy1 - the ISA2006 server, also on the VM boxes
SIMSTS - Sims terminal server, the one teachers use to access from the web and do work on an admin program called sims
Terminalserv01 and Terminalserv02 - pretty much in the name

Thats about it for now, got 3 HP DL320s sat waiting for something to do though so no doubt ill give them a job soon :p
 
Rocks (as in the geological type) for all of our machines...plus numerous amusing names

eg our most recent workstation buy (a quad core etc etc) we named 'cerberus' and Zombie was a machine which was coaxed back into life.
 
The latest batch of ones being put in are named after Spongebob Squarepants characters. This was after they ran out of Flintstones characters.

The mac servers are named after the simpsons.
 
Deserts, Atacama, Sahara etc.

Once we'd run out of deserts, it went onto a less inspiring "drinks" theme, fanta, mocha, redbull etc.
 
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