Open Stack

> My problem is that the servers that I'm using have their name defined as dcx-cy-blz (datacenter - chassis - blade). After installing openstack these names are reflected as the names of the hosts in nova.
> We would like to have our compute nodes referenced as compute1, compute2 ....

The simplest is then to use compute1, compute2, etc. in your /etc/openstack_deploy/openstack_user_config. You can still internally refer to dcx-cy-blz if you like, it will just not appear openstack or in the inventory.

Regards,
JP