Vista - VPC Naming Conventions/Best Practices Question

I was wondering what everyone is using conventions/standards/best practices
for naming virtual machines? Especially when using virtual machines as a
consultant for different clients?
Any info more than welcome.

thanks
Guy

"Guy" <Guy@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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The answer is very simple - you use the same standards as you use for naming
physical machines.

One of the most important things to remember with virtualisation is that
virtual machines are *EXACTLY THE SAME* as physical machines as far as the
software (both OS and applications) running on them is concerned. The vast
majority of the time, software has not the slightest notion that it's
running on a virtual machine - it simply has no need whatsoever to know
this.

As an example, say you created a virtual machine, gave it plenty of RAM,
installed Windows Server 2008 on it, and then installed SQL Server 2008 on
it.

Now you add the virtual machine to your domain and tell your users that
there's a new SQL Server on the network, and tell them what the name of the
server is.

Do they care that it's running on a virtual machine as opposed to a physical
machine in the server room? Can they even tell the difference...?


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