What is the HBA API?
The SNIA Common HBA API is an industry standard, programming interface for accessing management information in Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters (HBA). Developed through the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), the HBA API has been overwhelmingly adopted by Storage Area Network vendors to help manage, monitor, and deploy storage area networks in an interoperable way. The HBA API is implemented as a set of ‘C’ level APIs, which allow access to low level, Fibre Channel HBA information in a platform- and vendor- independent way. The API depends on vendor supplied, vendor specific code for the vendor’s HBAs. The API does not support any vendor’s HBA without a vendor specific library.
