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To mount, initialize, and format a volume

  1. Start the Microsoft iSCSI initiator.

  2. In the iSCSI Initiator Properties window, on the Discovery tab, click Discover Portal.

  3. In the Discover Target Portal dialog box, supply the IP address of your iSCSI-enabled network interface, and then click OK.

  4. In the iSCSI Initiator Properties window, on the Targets tab, locate the Discovered targets. The device status should appear as Inactive.

  5. Select the target device and then click Connect. After the device is connected, the status should change to Connected. (For more information about using the Microsoft iSCSI initiator, see Installing and Configuring Microsoft iSCSI Initiator).

  6. On your Windows host, press the Windows Logo key + X, and then click Run.

  7. In the Run dialog box, type Diskmgmt.msc. Click OK, and the Disk Management dialog box will appear. The right pane will show the volumes on your host.

  8. In the Disk Management window, the mounted volumes will appear as shown in the following illustration. Right-click the discovered volume (click the disk name), and then click Online.

    Initialize format volume

  9. Right-click the volume (click the disk name) again, and then click Initialize.

  10. To format a simple volume, perform the following steps:

    1. Select the volume, right-click it (click the right area), and click New Simple Volume.
    2. In the New Simple Volume wizard, specify the volume size and drive letter and configure the volume as an NTFS file system.
    3. Specify a 64 KB allocation unit size. This allocation unit size works well with the deduplication algorithms used in the StorSimple solution.
    4. Perform a quick format.

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To watch a video that demonstrates how to mount, initialize, and format a StorSimple volume, click here.