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Updating vsphere cloud provider to support k8s cluster spread across multiple vCenters
**What this PR does / why we need it**:
vSphere cloud provider in Kubernetes 1.8 was designed to work only if all the nodes of the cluster are in one single datacenter folder. This is a hard restriction that makes the cluster not span across different folders/datacenter/vCenters. Users have use-cases to span the cluster across datacenters/vCenters.
**Which issue(s) this PR fixes**
Fixes # https://github.com/vmware/kubernetes/issues/255
**Special notes for your reviewer**:
This is a change purely in vsphere cloud provider and no changes in kubernetes core are needed.
**Release note**:
```release-note
With this change
- User should be able to create k8s cluster which spans across multiple ESXi clusters, datacenters or even vCenters.
- vSphere cloud provider (VCP) uses OS hostname and not vSphere Inventory VM Name.
That means, now VCP can handle cases where user changes VM inventory name.
- VCP can handle cases where VM migrates to other ESXi cluster or datacenter or vCenter.
The only requirement is the shared storage. VCP needs shared storage on all Node VMs.
```
Internally tested and reviewed the code.
@tthole, @shaominchen, @abrarshivani
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