topic Re: Virtual Images Library in HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software

Virtual Images Library

VBS2 — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 09:32:24 GMT

Hello.

I have to following NAS Synology storage added to our 3 Node VM Essentials cluster as a NFS Pool:

I want to use Images volume for the Virtual Image Library,

When i go there, is see the following message:

Is it possible to use one of the synology volumes?

I don.t see the option "Default Virtual Image Store" which i see when trying to create a filestore:

So, is it not allowed to use a datastore for the default Virtual image store?.

And what is the difference between a "NFS Pool" and a "File Share" ?.

Thank you

Re: Virtual Images Library

PeterTzvetanov — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 05:56:17 GMT

Hello VBS2,

the difference between the NFS Pool and the Files Shares is that the NFS pool is used by the hosts as datastore to deploym the VMs on it, while the "File Shares" are used by the VME exclusive for actions like uploading images and/or the build in functions like backups.

With regards

Re: Virtual Images Library

Arnout_Verbeken — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 14:53:26 GMT

Please first read https://community.hpe.com/t5/hpe-morpheus-vm-essentials/disk-space-filling-up-on-host-where-vmessentails-console-is/m-p/7252607#M513

To achieve what you want to do:

Remove the "images volume" as datastore from the cluster
Add the image volume as File Share (NFSv3) under Infra-Storage
Select "Default Virtual Image Store"
Create/add Virtual Images (Library - Virtual Images)
Deploy a new Instance (Provisioning)