Overview

Integration involves synchronizing devices, topology, and the hierarchy of a customer storage infrastructure in the Universal CMDB database (CMDB). This enables Change Management and Impact Analysis across all business services mapped in UCMDB from a storage point of view.

You integrate SE with UCMDB using Data Flow Management (DFM).

When you activate the Storage Essentials integration, DFM retrieves data from the SE Oracle database and saves CIs to the Universal CMDB database. Users can then view SE storage infrastructure in UCMDB.

The data includes information on storage arrays, fibre channel switches, hosts (servers), storage fabrics, logical volumes, host bus adapters, storage controllers, and fibre channel ports. Integration also synchronizes physical relationships between the hardware, and logical relationships between logical volumes, storage zones, storage fabrics, and hardware devices.