Ghost session

[MarcMoennikes]

Hello,

i have target, which has a "ghost session".
I mean, the server who is connecting to the target is down.
When i open the starwind console, i can see on the target a session from the server.
When i start the server (windows 2008R2) there are 2 sessions, the server can not connect to the target.
There is no MPIO, only one NIC is configured on both target server and initiator.
Is there a way to "kill" the session without killing other iscsi communications?

Thank you

Regards

[Max (staff)]

Hello Marc,
Unfortunately there is no way to release a ghost session without stopping the other sessions.
As far as I know ghost sessions were not observed since 5.5 so I guess you're running one of the old StarWind versions
This means that you need to update your SAN software to the latest version in order to benefit from new features.
http://www.starwindsoftware.com/custome ... arwind.exe

[MarcMoennikes]

Hello,

thanks for your reply.
We are using 5.6. I will restart server in the next hours.

Regards

[anton (staff)]

I think we've re-implemented this feature back in V5.8 core we'll release pretty soon. Let me check...

P.S. Just for future

Hello,

thanks for your reply.
We are using 5.6. I will restart server in the next hours.

Regards

[Alex (staff)]

Marc,
It's worth updating to 5.7.
5.6 had an issue with processing LUN reset commands, which could lead to incorrect session management.