That's what I thought too since that's true for FC devices, but disable is 
set to no in iscsi.conf (as it ships that way).

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To: "William Yang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [storage-discuss] iSCSI initiator on Solaris 10

> i'm still fairly new at iSCSI, but you probably have mpxio
> enabled in your iscsi.conf:
>
>
> # tail /kernel/drv/iscsi.conf
> # Global mpxio-disable property:
> #
> # To globally enable MPxIO on all iscsi ports set:
> # mpxio-disable="no";
> #
> # To globally disable MPxIO on all iscsi ports set:
> # mpxio-disable="yes";
> #
> mpxio-disable="no";
>
>
> c1t0100000C76949240000002A0045DE016Ad0
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>   ^^^^^^^ target num ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> the target-num (tX) gets changed when multipathing/mpxio
> are involved.  if mpxio is disabled, you'll get "short names",
> as you say.
>
> /andrew
>
>
> William Yang wrote:
>> In a lot of the documents and blogs online, when working with iSCSI 
>> people seem to get a really long target ID (the GUID?) when working with 
>> devices in /dev/dsk (e.g. c1t0100000C76949240000002A0045DE016Ad0).  For 
>> some reason, I get short target numbers much like on a local SCSI 
>> controller (c1t0d0).  Is there a configuration change to use GUIDs, or is 
>> this a configuration change that needs to be made on the target side?
>>  I'm running Solaris 10 update 5 (x86 and SPARC).
>>  Thanks,
>> William Yang
>>
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