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Automount is enabled by default on Windows Server. Automount automatically assigns drive letters to newly mapped volumes, including thin clone recovery volumes. Automount behavior is undesirable in a Hyper-V environment because it can interfere with data recovery processes.
In a Hyper-V environment on PowerStore, automount should be disabled as a best practice.
The following figure shows how to disable the automount feature.