What are phyisical vs logical vs conceptual CIs?

[Suggy]

Can anyone tell me what are phyisical vs logical vs conceptual CIs? along with multiple examples please !

[Slava Savitsky · Accepted solution]

Some examples are available in Overview of CMDB product documentation article:

A CI may be:

• A physical entity, such as a computer or router
• A logical entity, such as an instance of a database
• Conceptual, such as a Requisition Service

[Slava Savitsky · Accepted solution]

Some examples are available in Overview of CMDB product documentation article:

A CI may be:

• A physical entity, such as a computer or router
• A logical entity, such as an instance of a database
• Conceptual, such as a Requisition Service

[Pratiksha · Accepted solution]

Physical CIs: 

• Servers: Physical machines like Dell PowerEdge, HP ProLiant.

Logical CIs

Virtual Machines: VMware ESXi VMs, Hyper-V VMs.

Conceptual CIs

IT Services: Email services, web hosting services, business service, application service