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title: Provision and deploy Microsoft Connected Cache for ISP
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# Create, provision and deploy Microsoft Connected Cache for ISP

**Applies to**

- Windows 10
- Windows 11

> [!IMPORTANT]  
> Before you can create your Microsoft Connected Cache, you will need to complete the [sign up process](mcc-isp-signup.md).

## Create a cache node

1. Navigating to **Cache nodes** under **Settings**.
1. Select **Create Cache Node**.
1. Provide a name for your cache node
1. Select **Create** to create your cache node.  

## Provision your cache node  

1. Select the cache node you want to provision and deploy.

   :::image type="content" source="./images/numberedprovmcc.png" alt-text="Screenshot of the Settings tab in the Cache nodes page.":::  

1. Enter the max allowable egress that your hardware can support.  

1. Under Cache storage, specify the location of the cache drives to store content along with the size of the cache drives in Gigabytes.  
   > [!NOTE]
   > You can add up to nine cache drives.  

1. Under Routing information, select the routing source you would like to use. For more information, see [client routing](mcc-isp-client-routing.md). 

   - If you choose **Manual** routing, enter Address range/CIDR blocks and the number of IP space.  
   - If you choose **BGP** routing, enter the ASN and IP addresses of the neighborship.
    > [!Note] 
    > **Prefix count** and **IP Space** will stop showing 0 when BGP is successfully established.

## Deploy your cache node 
 
:::image type="content" source="./images/numbereddeploymcc.png" alt-text="Screenshot of the Azure portal showing the Server provisioning tab.":::


1. Under **Server provisioning**, download the provisioning package to your server.  

    Open a terminal window and run the following command to change the access permission to the Bash script.  

    ```bash
    sudo chmod +x installmcc.sh
    ```

1. Run the provisioning script that is shown in the Azure portal for your cache node.  


1. If there were no errors, you've set up your cache node. To verify the server is set up correctly, follow the [verification steps](mcc-isp-verify-cache-node.md).