Heh, good topic. Sometimes it takes me more time to figure out a good name than installation alone ;-)
At work, naming is very conventional and strict: two letters for a location (usually the town, not a country), three letters for a usage and a number made out of a DC location, year installed followed by an instance #.
In my LAB I've vanilla cause it was the first Itanium I bought. Then some other ones which were named by the cartoon characters (Looney tunes, Shrek and some SK/CZ ones).
I name sun servers with the sun in their name. One OpenIndiana is named adam (abbreviation for advanced disk array management ;-)).
Non-personal virtual machines usually carry abbreviated OS type (sun, w2k3, lx, fbsd, obsd) with a preffix of a virtual technology. In my setup vb for VirtualBox and vm for VMware. So I have vblx01, vmsun01, ..
I've a FreeBSD in virtual machine I like a lot (I do use Windows7 as a desktop) called foxi - sexi FreeBSD
And my very main personal FreeBSD server in datacenter is called /translated to English and added space here/ three squirrels.
At work, naming is very conventional and strict: two letters for a location (usually the town, not a country), three letters for a usage and a number made out of a DC location, year installed followed by an instance #.
In my LAB I've vanilla cause it was the first Itanium I bought. Then some other ones which were named by the cartoon characters (Looney tunes, Shrek and some SK/CZ ones).
I name sun servers with the sun in their name. One OpenIndiana is named adam (abbreviation for advanced disk array management ;-)).
Non-personal virtual machines usually carry abbreviated OS type (sun, w2k3, lx, fbsd, obsd) with a preffix of a virtual technology. In my setup vb for VirtualBox and vm for VMware. So I have vblx01, vmsun01, ..
I've a FreeBSD in virtual machine I like a lot (I do use Windows7 as a desktop) called foxi - sexi FreeBSD
And my very main personal FreeBSD server in datacenter is called /translated to English and added space here/ three squirrels.