Initiator Groups

An initiator is a port on a server or computer that "initiates" a connection with "target" ports on a storage array. It can be an Ethernet Network Interface Card (NIC) port that initiates a connection over an iSCSI fabric to one or more target ports, or a Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter (HBA) port that initiates a connection over a Fibre Channel fabric to one or more target ports.

An initiator group is a collection of either iSCSI initiators or Fibre Channel initiators that are managed as a single unit.