Name

Select the name for a Virtual Server

The Virtual Server's name can be any combination of lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens.

It cannot have capital letters, whitespace, or other special characters. Shorter names are preferred because this is part of the server's DNS name.

Potential name conflicts

Deploying a Virtual Server creates a Block Storage Volume with the same name as the server.

Ensure the Virtual Server's name doesn't conflict with any Storage Volumes in your namespace. If there is an existing Storage Volume with that name, the deployment will fail.

Cloud UI

Deployment method: CoreWeave Cloud UI

From the CoreWeave Cloud UI Virtual Server deployment menu, enter a server name.

Enter the Virtual Server name

CLI

Deployment method: Kubernetes CLI

Enter a name for your Virtual Server is simple using the Kubernetes manifest file.

The name you'd like to use is configured by setting its label under the name selector in the metadata section of the manifest.

Name configuration options

Variable name	Variable type	Description	Default value
name	String	The name you'd like to use for the Virtual Server.	none

In the example below, the name example-123 is set under metadata.name.

---
apiVersion: virtualservers.coreweave.com/v1alpha1
kind: VirtualServer
metadata:
    name: example-123

Terraform

Deployment method: Terraform

The name for the Virtual Server can be defined in the vs_name variable in your variables.tf file.

Name configuration options

Variable name	Variable type	Description	Default value
vs_name	String	The name you'd like to use for the Virtual Server.	MY-VS

Terraform example:

variable "vs_name" {
  description = "Virtual Server hostname"
  default     = "MY-VS"
}