HBA (Host Bus Adapter)

"Host Bus Adapter", connects a host system (the computer) toother network and storage devices.

An adapter card that includes all of the I/O logic, software, and processing to manage the transfer of information between the host computer's bus and the Fibre Channel loop.

The card that fits into a computer, server, or mainframe that links it via Fibre Channel or SCSI to a storage device or storage network.

An acronym for Host Bus Adapter, an interface card which plugs into the computer's bus and connects it to the network

The HBA is the intelligent hardware residing on the host server which controls the transfer of data between the host and the target storage device.