An administrator would like to connect a server to a SAN. Which of the following processes would BEST allow for availability and access control?

Creating the LUN on the SAN itself (not on the server) is incorrect architecture for a SAN deployment, and deduplication is a storage efficiency feature that has no relevance to availability or access control.

A multipath LUN on the server is architecturally incorrect; multipath I/O is a host-level driver configuration for using multiple HBA paths, not a LUN type, and deduplication does not address access control.

Clustering HBAs is not a standard SAN configuration concept, and the described combination lacks explicit LUN masking - the specific access control mechanism required by the question.

A dual-port HBA installed in the server provides two independent paths to the SAN fabric, so a single port failure does not interrupt storage access - directly addressing availability. The LUN is created on the SAN (the correct location for shared storage), and LUN masking uses the HBA's worldwide port name to restrict which hosts can see and access each LUN, providing storage-level access control.