topic Re: Create local Datastore with internal HDD in HPE Morpheus VM Essentials

Create local Datastore with internal HDD

smendez27 — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 02:24:14 GMT

Hello community,
I have a DL360 Gen 10+ server where I installed HPE VM Essentials, the server has 2 logical arrays, a logical drive with 2 960GB disks in RAID1, where VM Essentials was installed and another logical drive with 4x 960GB RAID5 with 2.6TB usable where I want to store the VMs created.Fig.1

The volume with the provisioned 2.6TB disk is displayed in HPE Manager.

I can't add a Datastore with the 2.6TB mounted disk, where I want to store the created VMs.
Please can someone support me?.

Re: Create local Datastore with internal HDD

KoreyG — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 21:19:05 GMT

Hello @smendez27!

From the screenshots, it looks like you have your disk online and mounted to /mnt/data/

In HPE VM Essentials, navigate to your cluster:
Infrastructure > Clusters > click your cluster hyperlink
Click on the Storage tab in the cluster
Under the Data Stores tab, click the Add button
You can add a Directory Pool, which you target a directory on the hypervisor to make available to be used by HPE VM Essentials. For example:
Then click the Save button
The Datastore will become available to the cluster after that for provisioning

Hope that helps!

Re: Create local Datastore with internal HDD

smendez27 — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 02:36:36 GMT

Hello KoreyG

I appreciate the support, after creating the logical volume I was able to add the Datastore.
Thank you very much!

Re: Create local Datastore with internal HDD

ospanbekov — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 06:46:27 GMT

When I try to do according to your instructions, I have the Cloud selection line, but the drop-down menu is empty

p.s. My apologies, it turns out I was trying to add it to another menu.