US Patent 7805473 Data center management systems and methods

Methods, systems, and machine-readable mediums are disclosed for managing data centers. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed which comprises receiving, at an interface for a data center management system, a grid location input for a first asset, the grid location input having a grid location value corresponding to a grid location in a data center managed by the data center management system. A first vertical position input for the first asset is also received at the interface, the first vertical position input having a first vertical position value indicating a vertical position. The method further comprises mapping the first asset to the grid location value and mapping the first asset to the first vertical position value.