CompTIA Server+ SK0-005 Practice Question

The correct answer is iSCSI initiator. In an iSCSI storage network, the client component that resides on the server (in this case, the hypervisor) is called the initiator. It is responsible for sending SCSI commands over the IP network to the iSCSI target. The iSCSI target is the storage system that provides the LUNs. A Fibre Channel HBA is hardware for a different storage protocol (Fibre Channel) that requires a dedicated network, not standard Ethernet. LUN masking is a security process configured on the target to control which initiators have access to specific LUNs; it is not the client component itself.