1. An apparatus, comprising: a network device having a physical port configured to be operatively coupled to a host device hosting a virtual resource, the network device configured to be operatively coupled to a network management module, the network device configured to send to the network management module a device identifier of the virtual resource and a device identifier of the network device such that the network management module associates the device identifier of the network device with a provisioning instruction received from an external management entity and including the device identifier of the virtual resource based on the device identifier of the virtual resource.