During live migration the def terminate_connection is called by the cinder-volume service. This definition has operation to unexport the iscsi target this causing me issues after live-migration of guest VM. The issue is when the destination node tries to login to the iscsi target by that time the remove_export unexports the iscsi target(removes the exported iscsi target) causing the dest iscsi login with no response from iscsi target which in turn resulting in I/O errors in dest node.

On commenting the lines below i could perform a successful live-migration without I/O errors.

below is the manager.py code from /cinder/cinder/volume/manager.py

Before:

 def terminate_connection(self, context, volume_id, connector, force=False):

    """Cleanup connection from host represented by connector.

    The format of connector is the same as for initialize_connection.
    """
    # NOTE(flaper87): Verify the driver is enabled
    # before going forward. The exception will be caught
    # and the volume status updated.
    utils.require_driver_initialized(self.driver)

    volume_ref = self.db.volume_get(context, volume_id)
    try:
        conn_info = self.driver.terminate_connection(volume_ref,
                                                     connector,
                                                     force=force)
        print "chandra cinder.volume.managerpy terminate_connection self.driver.terminate_connection check conn_info",conn_info
        print "chandra cinder.volume.managerpy terminate_connection self.driver.terminate_connection is not implemented yet"
        # NOTE(skolathur): If volume_type is fibre_channel, invoke
        # FCZoneManager to remove access control via FC zoning.
        if conn_info:
            vol_type = conn_info.get('driver_volume_type', None)
            mode = self.configuration.zoning_mode
            LOG.debug(_("Zoning Mode: %s"), mode)
            if vol_type == 'fibre_channel' and self.zonemanager:
                self._add_or_delete_fc_connection(conn_info, 0)
    except Exception as err:
        err_msg = (_('Unable to terminate volume connection: %(err)s')
                   % {'err': err})
        LOG.error(err_msg)
        raise exception.VolumeBackendAPIException(data=err_msg)
    try:
        LOG.debug(_("volume %s: removing export"), volume_id)
        self.driver.remove_export(context.elevated(), volume_ref)
        print "chandra cinder.volume.managerpy terminate_connection self.driver.remove_export"
        print "chandra cinder.volume.managerpy terminate_connection self.driver.remove_export is not implemented yet"
    except Exception as ex:
        LOG.exception(_("Error detaching volume %(volume)s, "
                        "due to remove export failure."),

After:

def terminate_connection(self, context, volume_id, connector, force=False):

"""Cleanup connection from host represented by connector.

The format of connector is the same as for initialize_connection.
"""
# NOTE(flaper87): Verify the driver is enabled
# before going forward. The exception will be caught
# and the volume status updated.
utils.require_driver_initialized(self.driver)

volume_ref = self.db.volume_get(context, volume_id)
try:
    conn_info = self.driver.terminate_connection(volume_ref,
                                                 connector,
                                                 force=force)
    print "chandra cinder.volume.managerpy terminate_connection self.driver.terminate_connection check conn_info",conn_info
    print "chandra cinder.volume.managerpy terminate_connection self.driver.terminate_connection is not implemented yet"
    # NOTE(skolathur): If volume_type is fibre_channel, invoke
    # FCZoneManager to remove access control via FC zoning.
    if conn_info:
        vol_type = conn_info.get('driver_volume_type', None)
        mode = self.configuration.zoning_mode
        LOG.debug(_("Zoning Mode: %s"), mode)
        if vol_type == 'fibre_channel' and self.zonemanager:
            self._add_or_delete_fc_connection(conn_info, 0)
except Exception as err:
    err_msg = (_('Unable to terminate volume connection: %(err)s')
               % {'err': err})
    LOG.error(err_msg)
    raise exception.VolumeBackendAPIException(data=err_msg)
#try:
#    LOG.debug(_("volume %s: removing export"), volume_id)
#    self.driver.remove_export(context.elevated(), volume_ref)
#    print "chandra cinder.volume.managerpy terminate_connection self.driver.remove_export"
#    print "chandra cinder ...