A physical connection on the that resides within a . When the host adapter only has one physical connection (initiator port), the terms initiator port and host adapter are synonymous.
The initiator ports are automatically detected by the storage management software
after the recognizes the initiator port. An initiator port is the actual physical connection that allows a host to gain access to the in the . If you want to define specific for a particular host and create , you must define its associated initiator ports.