Datastore names

[archer99]

Hello everyone,

I was wondering how datastores and virtual machines are managed in huge datacenters/multiple datacenters managed by same company. What are the different naming conventions people commonly use. Lets say, I am a company that has three datacenters across the globe, are there any chances of having naming conflicts between vms/datastores across those datacenters ?

[TomHowarth]

The easiest way to prevent this is to create a naming convention,  for example with you aprocrphal 3 globally dispersed datacenters you could do something like this

Region-location-usage-number

AMER-NYC-ESXDataStore-001

EMEA-LON-ESXDataStore-001

APAC-SYD-ESXDataStore-001

That would give you  a Globally identifiable naming convention for you Datastores,  if you then purchased new datacenters in any region, you would just change the second set of characters for an new TLA, and for other type of usage you would changet the third set of characters.

[archer99]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. I was wondering how different companies do it. Is this a commonly used practice ? Just trying to get different ideas. Because the different datacenters we have might not be managed by same folks. How does it all sync ? Or is it a case that comapnies dont care about ?

[TomHowarth · Accepted solution]

To be fair that which I posted is a fairly standard representation and is transportable across diferent services. Some companies really could not care less until they run into some trouble,

The most important thing is standardisation across boundaires, ie Networks understand what your standard mean to map them to thiers, or they actually use the same standards, the same goes for the Storage Teams.  this is where the most confusion arises.  as nothing is more frustrating then knowing where the issue is but the team that needs to solve it do not have a clue what location you are talking about, then you have to start looking a CDP output or finding naa.###### numbers for the SAN Team.

Standards in a company are important.

Pick one and keep to it and try to get it accepted globally across displines.  That said, Storage and Network teams have tended to be historically more standards driven and you may find that thier systems is the one that is needed.