That's right up there with "is the Internet down" when in fact what they mean is, "my password expired, I didn't renew it, and now I cannot get onto the company intranet" ,.. however,...
In our environment we have: Host servers Guest servers Physical Servers Thick Clients Thin Clients Zero Clients In practice however we refer to the servers as to what they are, "The Mail Server", "The App Server" etc... its of little or no interest as to the platform they reside on. Unless they are perceived to be slow, then "The Virtual" is blamed. Gavin Wilby IT Support Engineer From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of geoff Sent: 14 July 2014 18:50 To: ntsysadm Subject: [NTSysADM] Stupid terminology question OK sanity check please. When referring to the system your windows O/S tied to whether it is physical or virtual what term do you use? Essentially I need a good term that covers both physical and virtual in a single term. The best I have come up with is host but even that is confusing in some circles. Rant below if you want to read it <steps up on soapbox> I have numerous clients that refer to their server by their application name. OK, I get that. They see their environment as important, and don't care about the underlying O/S. But when I report some problem to them that involves the hostname they are like the proverbial deer in the headlights. "But that's not what it is called!" they retort. In the old days I would bite my tongue and patiently explain that my hostname is the physical system supporting their environment and with faces sufficiently saved we would move on. Now I get "But there isn't this a virtual server?" Hence my question. Don't even think about the discussion that ensues when it is getting underlying ESXi server that has an issue. <soap box stowed beneath desk till next needed> gt I'm just Playbookin' around SMP Partners Limited, SMP Trustees Limited and SMP Fund Services Limited are licensed by the Isle of Man Financial Supervision Commission. SMP Accounting & Tax Limited is a member of the ICAEW Practice Assurance Scheme. SMP Partners Limited registered in the Isle of Man, Company Registration No: 000908V Directors: M.W. Denton, M.J. Derbyshire, P.N. Eckersley, S.E McGowan, O. Peck, J.J. Scott, S.J. Turner SMP Trustees Limited registered in the Isle of Man, Company Registration No: 068396C Directors: A.C. Baggesen, M.W. Denton, O. Peck, J.J. Scott, J. Watterson, J. Cubbon SMP Fund Services Limited registered in the Isle of Man, Company Registration No: 120288C Directors: V. Campbell, M.W. Denton, P.N. Eckersley, D.A. Manser, S.E McGowan, O. Peck, J.J. Scott, R.K. Corkill SMP Accounting & Tax Limited registered in the Isle of Man, Company Registration No: 001316V Directors: I.F. Begley, A.J. Dowling, P. Duchars, P.N. Eckersley, J.J. Scott, S.J. Turner SMP Capital Markets Limited registered in the Isle of Man, Company Registration No: 002438V Directors: M.W. Denton, M.J. Derbyshire, D.F Hudson, S.E McGowan, O. Peck, J.J. Scott. SMP Partners Limited, SMP Trustees Limited, SMP Fund Services Limited, SMP Accounting & Tax Limited and SMP Capital Markets Limited are members of the SMP Partners Group of Companies. This email is confidential and is subject to disclaimers. Details can be found at: http://www.smppartners.com/disclaimer.asp ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com ______________________________________________________________________
