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Fix vSphere Cloud Provider to handle upgrade from k8s version less than v1.9.4 to v1.9.4+
**What this PR does / why we need it**:
vSphere Cloud Provider in kubernetes master v1.9.4+ is not able to identify the kubernetes nodes of version less than 1.9.4. Hence, volume operations fail in this case. This PR fixes this.
**Which issue(s) this PR fixes** *(optional, in `fixes #<issue number>(, fixes #<issue_number>, ...)` format, will close the issue(s) when PR gets merged)*:
Fixes#62435
**Special notes for your reviewer**:
Internally reviewed here: https://github.com/vmware/kubernetes/pull/477
**Release note**:
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