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In [[computing]], the '''FC-HBA API''' (also called the '''SNIA Common HBA API''') is an [[Application Programming Interface]] for [[Host Bus Adapter]]s connecting computers to [[hard disks]] via a [[Fibre Channel]] network. It was developed by the [[Storage Networking Industry Association]]<ref name=SNIA-pp>{{cite web

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|url=http://www.snia.org/tech_activities/hba_api/

The [[Fibre Channel|FC]] [[Host Bus Adapter|HBA]] API is standard storage management software interface developed by International Committee for Information Technology Standards ([[INCITS]]) T11.5 committee and [[SNIA]]. Each vendor who supports it supplies a vendor-unique C/C++ library which complies with the API.

|title=HBA APIs (Host Bus Adapter Application Programming Interface)

|publisher=[[Storage Networking Industry Association]]

|work=Project page}}</ref>

and published by the T11.5 committee of [[International Committee for Information Technology Standards|INCITS]]<ref name=T11-pp>{{cite web

|url=http://www.t11.org/t11/stat.nsf/1158203694fa939f852566dc0049e810/215071400b89c86a85256b9a0065f674?OpenDocument

|title=FC-HBA

|publisher=[[INCITS]] Technical Committee T11

|work=Project page}}</ref>

An "early implementers version" was published in 2000, and the current version was completed in 2002.

According to the FAQ,<ref>{{cite web

|title=HBA API FAQ

|url=http://hbaapi.sourceforge.net/faq.htm

|author=Benjamin F. Kuo |author2=Dixon Hutchinson

|date=January 30, 2002}}</ref>

"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." Vendors supply their own library (written in [[C (programming language)|C]]) as [[Plug-in (computing)|plugins]] for a common HBA library.<ref>

Section 2 of the specification</ref>

==References==

{{Reflist}}

==Operating system support==