HOST DEVICE WITH MULTI-PATH LAYER CONFIGURED FOR DETECTION AND RESOLUTION OF INITIATOR-RELATED CONDITIONS

An apparatus comprises a host device configured to communicate over a network with a storage system. The host device comprises a plurality of host bus adaptors, and a multi-path input-output driver configured to control delivery of input-output operations from the host device to the storage system over selected ones of a plurality of paths through the network. The paths are associated with respective initiator-target pairs wherein each of the initiators comprises a corresponding one of the host bus adaptors and each of the targets comprises a corresponding one of a plurality of ports of the storage system. The host device monitors performance of the ports in processing input-output operations delivered thereto, detects an initiator-related condition based at least in part on the monitored performance, and automatically adjusts an assignment of one or more of the initiators to one or more of the targets based at least in part on the detected initiator-related condition.