August 12
Server / network naming conventions
I am currently defining an infrastructure plan for the new company and part of that plan describes how to name servers and workstations.
Now, it is always tempting to name servers after Simpsons characters, Lord of the Ring characters, moons and planets of the solar system or even Kama Sutra positions. However, those names don't scale well and are completely incomprehensible to anyone who newly joins the organisation.
So I have come up with the following sensible CONSISTENT naming convention:
Name: Country/Location/[Virtualised]/D|T|P/Task/###
| Country | GB – Great Britain NL – Netherlands etc |
| Location | SA – St. Albans AM - Amsterdam etc |
| Virtualised | Optional ‘V’ when virtualised |
| D/T/P | Dev, Test or prod |
| Tasks | WFE - SharePoint Web Front end
IDX - Index server (SharePoint / other) WS - Workstations PR - Printers (not print servers) TS - Terminal Servers DC - Domain Controllers IIS - Web Servers ML - Mail Servers SQL - SQL Servers SMS - SMS Servers APP - Application Servers CL - Cluster names SV - General purpose servers HV - Hyper-V root server
TFS - Team Foundation Server
ORC - Oracle database server
FS - Dedicated File Server
PS - Dedicated Print Server |
| ### | 3 digit number padded with zeroes |
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