this is the card that fits into the server workstation to provide the interface between the processor and Fibre Channel connection (loop, fabric)
host bus adapter. A host bus adapter (HBA) is the interface card in a host, which connects a server to a Fibre Channel network.
Host bus adapter. A PCI adapter card which resides in the server whose only function is to convert data commands from PCI-bus format to storage interconnect format (examples: SCSI, Fiber Channel) and communicate directly with disk drives, tape drives, CD-ROMS, or other storage devices.
A PCI adapter that connects a server to the SAN fabric. Each HBA is referred to as a host.
An SCSI-2 adapter that plugs into a host and lets the host communicate with a device. The HBA usually performs the lower level of the SCSI protocol and normally operates in the initiator role.
Host Bus Adapter. A component which connects a host in/out bus to a computer's memory.
Host Bus Adapter. 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.
Host Bus Adapter. The HBA relieves the host microprocessor of data storage and retrieval tasks, usually improving the computer's performance time. An HBA and its disk subsystems make up a disk channel.
Host Bus Adapter. A hardware card that resides on the PC bus and provides an interface connection between a SCSI device (such as a hard drive) and the host PC.
An adapter used to connects a host computer to a storage network.
Host Bus Adapter An HBA is an I/O adapter that sits between the host computers bus and the Fibre Channel loop and manages the transfer of information between the two channels. In order to minimize the impact on host processor performance, the host bus adapter performs many low-level interface functions automatically or with minimal processor involvement.
Host-Bus Adapter _ an HBA is a device that permits a PC bus to pass data to and receive data from a storage bus (such as SCSI or fibre channel).
HBA stands for Host Bus Adaptor. It is the part in an external network that constitutes the interface between the network itself and the PCI bus of the compute node. HBAs usually carry a good amount of processing intelligence themselves for initiating communication, buffering, checking for correctness, etc. HBAs tend to have different names in different networks: HCA or TCA for Infiniband, LANai for Myrinet, ELAN for QsNet, etc.
Host Bus Adapter. A Fibre Channel connection that allows a workstation to attach to the SAN network.
host bus adapter. A circuit board and/or integrated circuit device that provides a SCSI bus connection to the computer system.
An acronym for Host Bus Adapter, an interface card which plugs into the computer's bus and connects it to the network
Host Bus Adapter - a computer hardware component that provides outside connectivity from a computer system using a specific protocol across an internal bus.
Another name for Fibre Channel adapter.
Host Bus Adapter:- an interface card which plugs into the computer's bus and connects it to the network.. Fibre-channel adapter cards SCSI adapter cards
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.
Host bus adapter. A hardware device that "connects" the operating system and a SCSI bus. A SCSI miniport driver manages the lower layers of the SCSI-II protocol on the HBA. See miniport driver. See also port driver, class driver, SFD, and SCSI.