iSCSI initiator

A component that implements the iSCSI protocol and provides storage connectivity between a host and a storage array that has iSCSI host ports. The iSCSI initiator might be implemented as a software component that runs on the host and provides connectivity through an Ethernet network interface card (NIC) or a Transmission Control Procotol (TCP) offload adapter. Alternatively, it might be a host bus adapter with the iSCSI protocol implemented on the host bus adapter.