Naming Question for dev & production servers

  • Hello

    I have 3 physical servers.

    1 test server and 2 servers used in a cluster.

    We were refering to these 3 servers as 1 "pod" to our windows admins. Meaning 1 "pod" serves the test and production needs.

    Were looking for a way to refer to a group of physical servers as one entity.

    Is there a term more widely used other than "pod"?

    Thanks

    Dave

  • ... environment?

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    Pablo (Paul) Berzukov

    Author of Understanding Database Administration available at Amazon and other bookstores.

    Disclaimer: Advice is provided to the best of my knowledge but no implicit or explicit warranties are provided. Since the advisor explicitly encourages testing any and all suggestions on a test non-production environment advisor should not held liable or responsible for any actions taken based on the given advice.
  • We named our instances with a sequence number to keep the Development, Staging, and Production servers associated, something like this:

    DEV01, DEV02, DEV03,

    STG01, STG02, STG03,

    PROD01, PROD02, PROD03

    So DEV01, STG01, PROD01 would be what you are referring to as a 'pod'.

    That doesn't really answer your question though, as I don't think we ever really had a general name for the groups. :unsure:

  • Thanks - the naming convention for our servers were sj361, sj362, sj363 etc

    Then sj362 & sj363 were refered to as SSNT-A cluster - and sj365 & sj366 were SSNT-B cluster

    But "cluster" doesn't include the test server - and environment is used with "SQL Server environment" (vs Oracle or Unix environment)

    "Pod" caused confusion between departments - I wanted to see if there was an official DBA term for this idea. I think I will end up staying with "Pod".

    Thanks

    Dave

  • Development Environment, Test Environment, Production Environment?

    It doesn't matter if stand alone or cluster - no confusion.

    _____________________________________
    Pablo (Paul) Berzukov

    Author of Understanding Database Administration available at Amazon and other bookstores.

    Disclaimer: Advice is provided to the best of my knowledge but no implicit or explicit warranties are provided. Since the advisor explicitly encourages testing any and all suggestions on a test non-production environment advisor should not held liable or responsible for any actions taken based on the given advice.

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