AndyNduffy
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I have a FreeNAS running on a HP microserver which is being used as a target for Windows Backup. A Server 2016 box is connecting over iSCSI and has been working for ages. Then yesterday, the Windows server crashed out of the blue (no pun intended). The server wouldn't boot whenever the LAN cable was plugged in. We tested another Windows server (an old 2012 server we were replacing with the new one) and that crashed as soon as we connected the LAN cable too. Both Windows servers had their iSCSI initiators configured to connect to FreeNAS and for 5 minutes during the day but were connected at the same time.
As soon as we turned off FreeNAS the servers were fine and have been since. Both Windows servers crashed with the error
"System thread exception not handled
What failed: NTFS.sys"
The only thing that has changed is the location of the FreeNAS box - it was moved to another part of the building and across another switch (I haven't checked, but may even been running over a 100Mb connection).
Has anyone else seen this? or has any advice?
As soon as we turned off FreeNAS the servers were fine and have been since. Both Windows servers crashed with the error
"System thread exception not handled
What failed: NTFS.sys"
The only thing that has changed is the location of the FreeNAS box - it was moved to another part of the building and across another switch (I haven't checked, but may even been running over a 100Mb connection).
Has anyone else seen this? or has any advice?