document the ganeti naming convention authored by anarcat's avatar anarcat
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one, to distinguish between multiple instances of the same server
(e.g. `mon-01`, `mon-02`)
Some machines do include a location name, when their location is
actually at least as important as their function. For example, the
Ganeti clusters are named like `gnt-LOC` where `LOC` is the location
(example, `gnt-fsn` is in Falkenstein, Germany). Nodes inside the
cluster are named `LOC-node-ID` (e.g. `fsn-node-01` for the first
Ganeti node in the `gnt-fsn` cluster).
Other servers may be named using that convention, for example,
`dal-rescue-01` is a rescue box hosted near the `gnt-dal` cluster.
## Location
Note that this naming scheme is deprecated. Favor role-based names,
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