iSCSI sessions remain after host access removed

[Timothy Milliken]

How can I remove active iSCSI sessions from ESX hosts that no longer require access to a particular Lun, without going to each ESX hosts and disconnecting the iSCSI session or rebooting my ESX farm?

If I delete the Server under the iSCSI session, does it only remove the iSCSI session or does it remove the host?

CMC - message that appears when attempting to remove the iSCSI session under the iSCSI sessions tab indicates the server will be deleted. This is confusing as all I want it the session removed, not the host deleted.

[Guze]

Hi,

I have the same problem, if you remove the server the entire host will be deleted.
Have you try with cliq resetsession ? I can't test because i don't have any lefthand at this time.
resetSession volumeName=MyVolume login=10.1.2.3 userName=admin passWord=secret initiator=iqn1;iqn2
Without initiator argument all iscsi session for the volume would be reset.

[amitv1]

you need to disconnect the session form the vmware side using this command
inside the vmware power cli

esxcli swiscsi session remove --adapter vmhba

[Marcel-p4500]

correct order is;

First on every hosts in your cluster disconnect/delete the volume from storage, do NOT do a rescan of adapters or anything.

Next, On all other hosts in your cluster, delete the ISCSI path from one host.

now do a rescan and the cluster does the rest for you regarding volumes and paths and such.

(Vmware cluster does a lot automaticly regarding iscsi, so always first do the volume of one host, no rescan, then the iscsi paths deletion, next the other hosts, then rescan)

hope this helps you, i had the same issues; all came back after rescan...)