What is a server and examples?

How many types of physical servers are there?

Are any of these servers virtualized?

Where do these servers come from? I will be using this to generate some reports that will summarize and display information from the systems. This includes a summary of the server types, what type of operating system they run, and what their CPU model/type is. Also, I need to find out the age, manufacturer, etc. Of the computers.

It's a good idea to identify the physical properties of the machines. How old are they? Do you have access to the room or the room itself? Do you have access to the building? How old is the building? Can you get the full history of the machine from your hardware vendor? That way you can determine whether or not you have access to any useful history (including BIOS history, serial number, etc). You can also find out if any of the BIOSes on the machines have ever been updated. If you have that information, you can correlate it with the BIOS version and manufacturer to determine which BIOS was installed first and last.

If you don't have access to a hardware vendor, you may want to search the Internet for the serial number of the machine. You can then determine the manufacturer of the motherboard by looking at the documentation that came with the machine or the motherboard itself.

You may also find data in the Windows event logs on the machines that is relevant to this information. See Event Viewer for details.

In the end, you can start to build up a database of computer hardware information, including a table of systems that have had the operating system installed in the past, and determine that table based on their computer model and serial numbers. If you don't have access to a hardware vendor or don't have time to find that information, you can also write scripts to query Google for that information, and write an automated script that does that. For example, If you run the program, it will search Google and generate a report. You can use the results of that search as your dataset for the summary.

How can I keep track of that? Are there any databases that I can use? The idea is that I have a lot of systems to inventory, so I can't keep track of them all.