I forgot to add... we have nearly 700 Unix/Linux servers...

For actual server names, we use 3 character prefixes to denote use (prd, dev, ttf for tech test facility, vrf for verfication, etc), then 2 chars for os type (lx for linux, ai for aix, ux for hp-ux and sx for solaris), then a 3 digit sequence that is unique across each use... prdux001, prdai007, etc.

rather uninteresting to be sure... but not something we had a choice in due to constraints by management

so... when we started to get partitionable 'frames', such as Power4/5/6 frames by IBM, or our Sun 12Ks, we started naming them after 'imaginary locations', such as Minis Tirith, Romulus, Vulcan, etc... usually centered on Star Trek, Star Wards, LoTR, etc...

Of course, one person named a frame Alpha Centauri, and had to be clued in that that wasn't an imaginary place....

so now the flood gates have opened and we have Gorgo and Arlen and Quahog, etc