You can use best practices and troubleshooting techniques for your storage environment in vSphere with Tanzu. What to read next Use Anti-Affinity Rules for Control Plane VMs on Non-vSAN DatastoresWhen you use datastores other than vSAN in your cluster with vSphere with Tanzu, place the three control plane VMs on different datastores for availability reasons. Storage Policy Removed from vSphere Continues to Appear as Kubernetes Storage ClassWhen you use the vSphere Client to remove the storage policy from vCenter Server or a namespace in the Supervisor, its matching storage class remains in the Kubernetes environment, but cannot be used. Use External Storage with vSAN DirectWhen you use vSAN Direct in the vSphere with Tanzu environment, you can use external shared storage to store management internal VMs and other metadata. Parent topic: Troubleshooting vSphere with Tanzu