diff --git a/app/controllers/api/physical_servers_controller.rb b/app/controllers/api/physical_servers_controller.rb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..8ed5d719710
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/controllers/api/physical_servers_controller.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+module Api
+  class PhysicalServersController < BaseController
+  end
+end
diff --git a/app/models/host.rb b/app/models/host.rb
index 1988dbc8873..3b29a796fc0 100644
--- a/app/models/host.rb
+++ b/app/models/host.rb
@@ -91,6 +91,9 @@ class Host < ApplicationRecord
   has_many                  :host_aggregate_hosts, :dependent => :destroy
   has_many                  :host_aggregates, :through => :host_aggregate_hosts
 
+  # Physical server reference
+  belongs_to :physical_server, :inverse_of => :host
+
   serialize :settings, Hash
 
   deprecate_attribute :address, :hostname
diff --git a/app/models/physical_server.rb b/app/models/physical_server.rb
index 8fda121f54a..2543d3fb2fb 100644
--- a/app/models/physical_server.rb
+++ b/app/models/physical_server.rb
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ class PhysicalServer < ApplicationRecord
 
   belongs_to :ext_management_system, :foreign_key => :ems_id, :class_name => "ManageIQ::Providers::PhysicalInfraManager"
 
+  has_one :host, inverse_of => :physical_server
+
   def name_with_details
     details % {
       :name => name,