Hi ssnider,
Nope, I'm 99.9% sure that Storage tab should not be appearing for physical servers, so there is nothing to workaround. I'm not sure what's going on, but your best bet is to file a support ticket so we can get to the bottom of it.
For anyone reading the thread, I am interested if anyone else is experiencing the problem. If it was widespread, I imagine we would have seen this by now given the number of SAM+VMAN integrations deployed in the field, but maybe it slipped under the radar?