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Ghost session

Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2011 10:51 am
by 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

Re: Ghost session

Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2011 3:39 pm
by 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

Re: Ghost session

Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2011 9:15 pm
by MarcMoennikes
Hello,

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

Regards

Re: Ghost session

Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2011 9:50 pm
by 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 :)
MarcMoennikes wrote:Hello,

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

Regards

Re: Ghost session

Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 10:05 am
by 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.