A server technician is reviewing a list of WWNs within a SAN storage array before provisioning additional LUNs to VMs. The purpose is to ensure only specific HBAs will have access to a particular…

Direct access bridging is not a standard SAN access control term and does not describe any process of restricting LUN visibility to specific HBAs via WWNs.

LUN zoning (more commonly called Fibre Channel zoning) is performed at the switch level to segment which HBAs can communicate, but it does not control access to specific LUNs at the array level the way masking does.

LUN masking is a storage array-level access control mechanism that uses WWNs to create an allowlist of HBAs permitted to see and access a specific LUN. The technician is reviewing WWNs precisely to configure this restriction, ensuring that only authorized hosts can mount and use the provisioned storage, which is the exact function LUN masking provides.

NIC teaming is a network interface aggregation technique for redundancy and throughput on Ethernet networks and has no relevance to SAN storage LUN access control or WWN management.