A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for performing a data center monitoring and management operation. The data center monitoring and management operation includes: identifying a plurality of asset resources within a data center; selecting a workload for allocation of asset resources; maintaining an inventory of available asset resources from the asset resources of the plurality of asset resources; determining which asset resources of the plurality of asset resources to allocate to the workload, determination of which asset resources of the plurality of asset resources to allocate taking into account the inventory of the available asset resources; and, performing a data center asset allocation operation, the data center asset allocation operation allocating resources the workload based upon the determining.