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16FC HBA 
16.1Overview 
This provider implements the HP FC HBA Profile which describes the behavior of Fibre Channel host 
adapters supporting the SCSI (FCP) command set. A Fibre Channel adapter used in a host system is 
called a Host Bus Adapter (HBA). An HBA is a physical device that contains one or more Fibre 
Channel ports. A single system can contain one or more HBAs. 
The following table details the profiles implemented and files installed by this provider. 
 
Table 16-1  Overview 
Implemented Profiles  HP FC HBA Profile 1.0 
Requirements  HBAAPI.dll that supports the SNIA Common HBA API, 
Version 2.18 
Provider Installation Files  Dll(s): 
•  HPWMISCSI.dll 
•  HPWMISCSIEventMsg.dll 
•  Cpqmdisk.dll 
•  Cpqmscsi.dll 
•  Cpqmsas.dll 
•  Cpqstmsg.dll 
•  Cpqstrutl.dll 
•  HPWMISRV.exe 
•  Hpwmistor.exe 
MOF(s): 
•  HPFCA_Schema.mof 
•  HPWMIFCA.MOF 
•  HPWMIFCAErrorMetaData.mof 
•  HPWMIFCARegistration.mof 
•  HP_SAInterop.mof 
•  HP_SAStorage.mof 
•  HP_Storage.mof 
 
16.2Use cases 
Figure 1 shows an instance example of the HP FC HBA profile for a single HBA that contains two port 
controllers with one FC port each. This instance example is used in all the following use cases.