Ceph Image Import Location?

[jamgwert81]

I'm new to trying out HPE VME.  I've recently tested deployment using the new 8.0.8 unified installer with 8.0.9 VMEM on three HPE DL380 G10 that were recently decommissioned from our VMware VSAN environment.  These hosts each contain 21 qty 1.5TB NVME drives and 2 qty 256GB Sata drives.  I've created a RAID1 logical drive for the 256GB drives to load the OS on.  I've configured an LACP lag to be shared by MGMT and Compute.  I have a single 10GB NIC running as an access port for the Storage network.  I've setup this HCI cluster about 6 times over trying to learn this product.  I'm able to deploy this pretty quick now after wiping it and starting over from scratch.  The current setup is using 8 of the 1.5TB drives in each host to create the Ceph shared storage.  I'm able to manage and migrate the VMEM vm after deployment and migrate the disks to mvm-volumes shared storage.  I've been able to import a Microsoft Server 2025 ISO into Virtual images and go thru initial Provisioning deployment of a new VM and prep it with VirtIO drivers and tools.  I've syspreped it and am trying to "capture" (Import an Image) from this VM, but I keep running into an issue doing this.  Everytime I trigger the "Import an Image" from the syspreped VM, the progress takes forever and eventually crashes the VMEM VM.  To me while the image capture is running it appears to eat all the storage on the VMEM VM and eventually runs out of space. 

I've tried unchecking "local" as "Active", and set the flag for "Image Target" on "morpheus-images" Datastore, but it seems everytime I go to "Import an Image" it doesn't seem to be placing it on the "morpehus-images" datastore.

Is this a bug? or am I not understanding what is happening?

Is there are proper way to add Ceph shared storage to "File Shares"?  If so how can I add it?  The path for //var/morpheus/kvm/images is not valid when trying to add to "File Shares".  Is there a way to make the "morpheus-images" Datastore be a target for imported images?  To clarify, adding the ISO or an image from my desktop via the UI appears to be placing them in the correct shared "morpheus-images" Datastore, it's only if I trigger the "Import as Image" from any existing VM already present in VMEM.

I'm new to this product coming over from VMware VSAN so just trying to understand what else I can/should be doing to make basic image capture work so I can continue trying out VM deployments with this.

Thanks for any assistance,

John