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After a disk has been created on the FlashArray and connected to the Hosts or Host Group it will show up on the Hyper-V cluster as a new offline disk.
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Open Disk Management and right-click the disk in the left pane and online it, then right-click again, and initialize it as a GPT disk. Next, right click in the right pane and create a new volume.
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Select NTFS (because ReFS loses Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX) and forces all writes to be redirected to the CSV owner impacting write performance). Select a 64K Allocation unit size, which will be the minimum because Windows will increase that size automatically depending on the size of the volume.
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Open Failover Cluster Manager, right-click Disks, and then select Add Disk.
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Select the disk you just formatted and select OK to add it to the cluster as Available Storage.
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Under Disks in Failover Cluster Manager, right-click the new disk that is marked as Available Storage, and select Add to Cluster Shared Volumes.
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The status changes from Available Storage to Cluster Shared Volume. In the bottom pane the mount point is shown as
C:\ClusterStorage\Volume5.