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Before deploying vSphere with Tanzu, a vSphere 7 cluster must be deployed. vSphere with Tanzu requires a minimum of three ESXi hosts with HA and DRS enabled. In addition, the DRS Automation Level must be configured for Fully Automated. vSphere DRS determines the placement of control plane VMs on ESXi hosts and can migrate them as needed. vSphere DRS is also integrated with the Kubernetes Scheduler on the control plane VMs, so that DRS determines the placement of vSphere Pods. vSphere Pod placement requests first go through the regular Kubernetes workflow, and then to DRS, which makes the final placement decision. A Supervisor Cluster can either use the vSphere networking stack with the NSX Advanced Load Balancer (also known as Avi Load Balancer, Essentials Edition) or an open-source load balancer such as HAProxy or VMware NSX-T Data Center to provide connectivity to Kubernetes control plane VMs, services, and workloads. Lastly, the cluster should be zoned or configured to consume PowerStore storage following documented best practices from both VMware and Dell.