1. A computer implemented method for identifying a physical machine corresponding to a virtual machine, the method comprising: assigning, in a database, a data center machine identifier to a physical computing system in a data center; assigning, in the database, a physical location within the data center for the physical computing system; in response to creating a virtual machine on the physical computing system, creating a mapping from a virtual machine identifier assigned to the virtual machine to the data center machine identifier for the physical computing system, wherein creating the mapping includes mapping an internet protocol address for the virtual machine to the physical computing system; in response to an occurrence of an event on the virtual machine, using the mapping to determine the physical location for the physical computing system associated with the virtual machine based, at least in part, on the data center machine identifier of the physical computing system in the data center; displaying a map of at least a portion of the data center; and identifying on the map the physical location for the physical computing system associated with the virtual machine.