Some time ago I experienced the same issue.

Only 1 target could be connected from an esx host. Others were shown as 
alternative paths to that target.

If I'm reminding correctly I thought I read on a forum it has something to do 
with the disks serial number. 

Normally every single (i)scsi disk is represented with a serial number, but 
when we create zvols on zfs  and share them via iscsi, there is no unique 
serial number. Somebody explained the ciscso unique initiator (built-in to esx) 
is using this serial to differentiate between multiple targets. But since the 
serial is empty  esx thinks all those targets are the same disk.

If it's true I don't understand why they use this serial, since the iqn is a 
unique name for a target.

Or shouldn't (open)solaris set a unique serial number for every zvol?

K
 
 
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