14. A method of processing updates to management information in a SAN comprising: identifying a set of updates indicative of update information in a storage array, the storage array including a plurality of storage objects; identifying a set of at least one storage object to which at least one of the updates pertain; determining updates in the set of updates which pertain to storage objects in the identified set; grouping the determined updates as a partition of updates operable for transmission and update, grouping including grouping updates in the set of updates into a partition of related updates, the related updates having changes in common with other updates in the partition such that the related updates result in writes to common database elements wherein the partition includes entries of SAN manageable entities in the same hierarchy according to tree based partitioning and wherein grouping identifies relations between manageable entities and wherein updates resulting in a database modification corresponding to a particular manageable entity result in an update to a related manageable entity, as defined by the relations, the update affecting a common database element, the updates to the related manageable entity operable to be affected in the same database update; transmitting each of the partitions independently of the other partitions according to a hierarchy of relations between the manageable entities; and updating a SAN managed object database (MODB) using at least one group of partitioned updates.
14. A method of processing updates to management information in a SAN comprising: identifying a set of updates indicative of update information in a storage array, the storage array including a plurality of storage objects; identifying a set of at least one storage object to which at least one of the updates pertain; determining updates in the set of updates which pertain to storage objects in the identified set; grouping the determined updates as a partition of updates operable for transmission and update, grouping including grouping updates in the set of updates into a partition of related updates, the related updates having changes in common with other updates in the partition such that the related updates result in writes to common database elements wherein the partition includes entries of SAN manageable entities in the same hierarchy according to tree based partitioning and wherein grouping identifies relations between manageable entities and wherein updates resulting in a database modification corresponding to a particular manageable entity result in an update to a related manageable entity, as defined by the relations, the update affecting a common database element, the updates to the related manageable entity operable to be affected in the same database update; transmitting each of the partitions independently of the other partitions according to a hierarchy of relations between the manageable entities; and updating a SAN managed object database (MODB) using at least one group of partitioned updates. 15. The method of claim 14 further comprising: determining if the updates are within a set of storage objects defined by one of the identified groups; and grouping updates together according to the relations, related manageable entities causing updates to common database elements, the related updates determined according to a san hierarchy of manageable entities, such that the SAN hierarchy includes mappings of FE adaptors to storage devices, the number of storage devices substantially larger than the number of FE adaptors and common database elements records pertaining to a particular manageable entity.