An administrator installs a second HBA into a server for redundancy. Now the server is reporting that there are two storage devices available whereas before there was only one. Which of the following

Installing a new HBA of the same model will not resolve the issue of the server seeing multiple paths as separate devices; path management software is needed.

Multipath I/O (MPIO) software is essential when a server has multiple Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) providing redundant paths to the same storage LUN. MPIO aggregates these multiple physical paths into a single logical device, preventing the operating system from seeing duplicate devices and enabling features like load balancing and automatic failover for high availability.

LUN masking is performed on the storage array to control which hosts can access specific LUNs, not to manage multiple paths to an already accessible LUN from the host side.

While connecting to a redundant switch enhances fabric redundancy, it does not address the host-side problem of managing multiple paths to the same LUN; MPIO is required for that.