Create local Datastore with internal HDD

[smendez27]

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?.

[KoreyG · Accepted solution]

Hello @smendez27!

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

1. In HPE VM Essentials, navigate to your cluster:
   Infrastructure > Clusters > click your cluster hyperlink
2. Click on the Storage tab in the cluster
3. Under the Data Stores tab, click the Add button
4. 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:
   
   
5. Then click the Save button
6. The Datastore will become available to the cluster after that for provisioning

Hope that helps!

[smendez27]

Hello KoreyG

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

[ospanbekov]

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.