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    Merge pull request #55845 from vmware/multi-vc-upstream · e201d342
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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
    e201d342
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