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Overview

The Inventory Data Centers feature provides a centralized, authoritative view of all infrastructure resources in the system, including both physical and virtual assets. It acts as the primary database for tracking and managing these resources, ensuring they are properly categorized, maintained, and available for operational activities.

By maintaining a consistent and up-to-date inventory, administrators can plan resource utilization more effectively, allocate infrastructure with confidence, and optimize overall capacity across environments.

Why use Inventory?

  • Centralizes tracking of all infrastructure resources in one place
  • Simplifies monitoring and allocation of resources
  • Supports accurate capacity and usage planning
  • Improves visibility and control of hardware and virtual assets
  • Enables better organization and lifecycle management of devices

Inventory Structure

From the navigation under Inventory → Data Centers, infrastructure resources are organized and managed in a step-based flow:

  1. Data Centers List
    • Displays all existing datacenters with details such as name, location, and rows.
    • Provides actions to search, view, or delete datacenters.
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  2. Data Center Overview
    • Click on the required datacenter to open its overview page.
    • The Overview shows category cards with a total count of resources registered to the selected datacenter.
    • Each number reflects the current inventory records and updates automatically when resources are added, edited, or removed. What each count means
    • Servers: Total number of registered physical servers in this datacenter (all states tracked in Inventory)
    • Virtual Machines: Total number of VM instances registered to this datacenter
    • Storages: Total number of storage resources associated with this datacenter
    • Network Switches: Total number of switch devices registered to this datacenter
    • InfiniBand: Total number of InfiniBand components (e.g., fabrics/switches) registered to this datacenter Clicking a card (or the arrow) opens the corresponding tab, where detailed attributes and breakdowns (such as allocation/availability, GPU capacity, and metadata) are managed. Medium
  3. Resource Tabs within a Data Center
    Each datacenter contains tabs that allow partner admins to manage different resource categories from a single place:

This consolidated view allows quick switching between resource types within the selected datacenter.

Add a Data Center

Follow these steps to create a new data center:

  1. Click Add Data Center and provide the required details:
    • Name: A unique name for the data center.
    • Location: The geographical or logical location (for example, centralindia).
  2. Click Create to complete the process.

The newly created data center will appear in the list and will be available for resource registration.

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Roles and Responsibilities

The Inventory Data Centers system is primarily used by cloud partners who manage their own GPU infrastructure. These administrators are responsible for uploading, maintaining, and tracking all physical and virtual assets within the environment.

Cloud Partner Administrators

Cloud partner admins manage the full lifecycle of infrastructure resources in the inventory Data Centers to support GPU-based compute provisioning.

Responsibilities:

  • Upload and register GPU servers, virtual machines, storages, network switches, and InfiniBand components
  • Maintain accurate, real-time inventory of available and allocated devices across all categories
  • Track resource ownership and usage across tenants and projects
  • Mark resources as available or in use during provisioning and teardown workflows
  • Ensure infrastructure readiness for automated provisioning via developer tools

Note: End users (e.g., customers or developers) do not interact with the Inventory Data Centers directly. They request compute resources through external interfaces, and the Inventory is updated automatically during provisioning.