On 9/17/18 8:29 PM, Giovanni Tirloni wrote:

Hello,

I want to deploy a VM instance on a project to be the test NFS server we have been talking about it.

According to the server naming conventions [0], I should name this "cloudstore-XXXX-dev", right?

VMs (at least in Openstack, there are some other VMs floating around in our cluster) don't typically follow the same naming conventions as production machines.  Usually they get a name of function-<incrementing number starting with 01> but no one will second-guess whatever name you choose.

Also, are we increasing the numbers from the latest labstore servers or starting fresh for cloudstore?

To avoid hilarity with shortened names, we're incrementing.  So, for example, 'labcontrol1002' was followed by 'cloudcontrol1003'.

Is there some other VM naming convention I should follow (or that our tenants are encouraged to follow)?

Not especially!  Nova tries (and usually succeeds) at enforcing cloud-wide unique naming, so we don't usually use stub names like 'test1' but that's about it.

-A

Thanks

0 - https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Infrastructure_naming_conventions#Server...