17. The processor readable medium of claim 16 , wherein the instructions to receive a selection include instructions to receive a selection of one of the inventory, assessment, and configuration task models, and the processor readable medium further comprises instructions to cause the processor to: display a task model menu for the selected task model and from which the tasks associated with the selected task model may be selected; receive a selection of one or more of the associated tasks through the task model menu, wherein the instructions to cause the processor to execute include instructions to cause the processor to execute the one or more selected tasks to perform one or more operations on targeted ones of the compute, storage, network, and virtualization components.
17. The processor readable medium of claim 16 , wherein the instructions to receive a selection include instructions to receive a selection of one of the inventory, assessment, and configuration task models, and the processor readable medium further comprises instructions to cause the processor to: display a task model menu for the selected task model and from which the tasks associated with the selected task model may be selected; receive a selection of one or more of the associated tasks through the task model menu, wherein the instructions to cause the processor to execute include instructions to cause the processor to execute the one or more selected tasks to perform one or more operations on targeted ones of the compute, storage, network, and virtualization components. 18. The processor readable medium of claim 17 , wherein each task is part of corresponding task definition that includes: a human readable task identifier (ID); the task represented as one or more component readable commands each to perform a corresponding operation on a targeted component when the task is executed; and one or more task arguments through which one or more component configuration parameters are passed to the commands and to the targeted component when the task is executed, wherein: the instructions to cause the processor to display a task model menu include instructions to cause the processor to display task IDs of tasks included in the selected task model; and the instructions to cause the processor to execute include instructions to cause the processor to provide commands of the one or more executed tasks to the targeted CI components.