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Device-Names

Device Naming Convention

This document outlines our device naming scheme, regardless of ownership.

Rules

For Personal Computer, we are using string instruments name.

For mobile devices, we are using flute instruments

For router we are using names which power all these instruments like dhun, dhwani. etc

Desktops

Harshdeep

Name Device IP Address MAC Address
Vina Harshdeep's PC

Laptops

Rohan

Name Device IP Address MAC Address
Sitar MSI GF63-Thin

Harshdeep

Name Device IP Address MAC Address
Ektara Apple MacBook Air M2

Smartphones

Harshdeep

Name Device IP Address MAC Address
Shankh Poco x3 pro

Rohan

Name Device IP Address MAC Address
Murli OnePlus 8t

iPhones

Rohan

Name Device IP Address MAC Address
Rohan Batra's Iphone 1 iPhone 6s

Routers

Name Device IP Address MAC Address
Dhun Airtel-Extreme
Dhvani Pfsense

Proxmox

Naming Convention

VMs

Production
VM Name:
  • The VM name should be formatted as "HOSTNAME".
  • Example: "webserver" (where hostname is webserver).
VID Range:
  • VID for production VMs should start from 200 and go up to 300.
Example:
  • If the hostname is "win10", the VM name would be "win10". The VM displayed in the Proxmox dashboard is using this format "VID (HOSTNAME)".

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Testing
VM Name:
  • The VM name for testing purposes should also be formatted as "HOSTNAME".
  • Example: "testvm" (where hostname is testvm).
VID Range:
  • VID for testing VMs should start from 700 and go up to 800.
Example:
  • If the hostname is "testvm", the VM name would be "testvm". The VM displayed in the Proxmox dashboard is using this format "VID (HOSTNAME)".

Containers

Production
Container Name:
  • The container name should be formatted as "HOSTNAME".
  • Example: "webserver" (where hostname is webserver).
CID Range:
  • CID for production containers should start from 100 and go up to 200.
Example:
  • If the hostname is "webapp", the container name would be "webapp". The container displayed in the management console is using this format "CID (HOSTNAME)".
Testing
Container Name:
  • The container name for testing purposes should also be formatted as "HOSTNAME".
  • Example: "testcontainer" (where hostname is testcontainer).
CID Range:
  • CID for test containers should start from 600 and go up to 700.

Naming of

VM

VID Hostname VM Name
201 pfsense

Containers

VID Hostname Container Name

  1. Iphone doesn't have a generic device name, as usual apple decided that we need to name i-devices based on usernames instead of hostnames. As usual apple things, due to these very reasons we are just keeping apple ecosystem as minimally integrated as possible. ↩