Server 2012 R2 iSCSI Target - Multiple targets per iSCSI Virtual Disk with CHAP

Scenario I am trying to achieve is this:
Windows Server 2012 R2 serves as iSCSI Target configured to have 1 iSCSI Virtual Disk
2 Hyper-V servers connecting to this target with iSCSI Inistator and have multiple targets for that iSCSI Virtual Disk using CHAP
**These 2 are nodes in fail over cluster, this iSCSI is added as a CSV.
Issue that I have, is that you can only have 1 target per iSCSI Virtual Disk
Both Hyper-V servers can connect to this LUN without issue when I add both initiator IDs to the target, but once I enable CHAP, you can only put one initiator ID in the "Name" field, so I can only connect from 1 Hyper-V server.
Do you know of a way around this?

From my understanding, "chaptest" is a single target, my goal was to make 2 targets to the same iSCSI virtual disk.
So if you were to right click the iSCSI virtual disk that "chaptest" is assigned to and click "Assign iSCSI Veritual Disk...", then select "New iSCSI Target, and proceed with the wizard it removes the "chaptest" target
and adds the new one just created.
My goal was to have 2 targets to 1 iSCSI VD, but seeing your screenshot, with 2 initiators connected, that goal doesn't seem needed anymore.
I was under the impression that the "User name" = the iscsi initiator IQN name, which had to be unique. That is why I thought I would need 2 targets.
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