What do you name your servers?

mrbios said:
Definately needs more than 2 for our particular site thats a certainty

4 + the PDC would be more like it, 1 per sperate building (we run network printer shares from them, DFS replication supplies the startmeus and desktop icons the students and teachers use etc)

EDIT: maybe 5 actually because the ICT-DC is our test one that is connected only too our office, so we would need to keep that
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I ran 3500 users worldwide on 4 primary DCs, you do not need 4+ for that size environment surely.

That said, those boxes were auth boxes only, DHCP, DNS was done on other servers (ie. the way it should be done in a decent size AD infrastructure)
 
Mine are either types of cheese or mythical norse gods names depending on the location :p
 
bigredshark said:
I ran 3500 users worldwide on 4 primary DCs, you do not need 4+ for that size environment surely.

That said, those boxes were auth boxes only, DHCP, DNS was done on other servers (ie. the way it should be done in a decent size AD infrastructure)
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Our boxes do auth, DHCP, DNS, WINS for the pre2000 machines (not that theres many), have DFS shares running on them and are also used as the local print servers for each building
 
bigredshark said:
I ran 3500 users worldwide on 4 primary DCs, you do not need 4+ for that size environment surely.

That said, those boxes were auth boxes only, DHCP, DNS was done on other servers (ie. the way it should be done in a decent size AD infrastructure)
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I think your making some rather sweeping statements there. I designed and implemented a AD for 15,000+ users over 43 countries, with 80 sites, and nearly 150 DC's

DC placement is determined by the network connectivity, size, resilience and administrative model required on each location. A box running AD, even if its serving as a GC, DHCP, DNS and WINS is doing next to nothing.
 
cfs/uat/dev/sit/tst - bck - server type - server function - two digit number

eg..

cfsbckesxapp01 - live esx server number 1
devbcksagapp01 - development sage application server number 1
 
Most servers here are named suchlike:

<REGION>-<COUNTRY>-<DIVISION>-<PURPOSE>-<SERVERNUMBER>
NA-CAN-PTL-MX-001

Personal servers however... character names from the Alien films. :D
 
All named functionally based on the site reference number:-

XX123456-DC01
XX123456-SIMS

1200 sites and over 4000 servers removed the option for 'cool' names.

When I worked in the SMB sector installing servers for folks it was ususally dependent on the business owner's sense of humor. One liked the Simpson characters and another wanted something a bit more mainstream so went for names of Elements.
 
Over the years i've seen

Starwars eg jedi, vader, etc etc

Star Trek eg Enterprise, Defiant etc etc

Planets eg Mars Saturn etc etc

Simpsons, elements, greek gods and lots more

One of the most obscure was RN battlecruisers/ships from 1910 to 1930's eg Repulse, Renown, Rodney etc etc Funny thing about that one was that the bloke who named them had left years ago and none of the current staff knew wth they were until i told them :P

Now i'm in corporate land with 100's and 1000's of boxes its all boring alphanumeric codes.
 
Location - Function - Server type and number
i.e.
LO-CLR-EX01 (London-Clustered-Exchange Server 01)
MA-CRM-DEV01 (Manchester-CRM Systems-Development Server 01)

Very boring. Some don't have hiphens due to older systems. I don't like this format because it's too limited sometimes.
 
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