r/unRAID • u/OreoDayz • 7d ago

Server names

Just curious what everyone named their servers.

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u/smokingcrater 7d ago

Unraid1

I have WAY too many servers to bother with names. They are either product or function, always with a number.

Yeah, boring, but try keeping track of 70+ vm's/lxc containers.

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u/PssyGotWifi 7d ago

That's what Ansible/Terraform and NetBox are for.

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u/smokingcrater 6d ago

I use ansible and netbox extensively, still easier to use logical names. Probably a carryover from my day job, with thousands of vm's. Naming conventions carry value.

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u/PssyGotWifi 6d ago

Are you running UnRaid bare metal or as VMs in Proxmox? (Out of curiosity)

Yeah, I'm enjoying using Netbox as an inventory source for Ansible.

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u/mineset 6d ago

don’t believe anything this guy says. nobody has thousands of servers and even if he does it’s not so bad

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u/scapegoat130 6d ago

lol on the other end of boring I have “thenas”.