feat: Add support for paravirtual RDMA network interface adapter type

[cspnanda]

Description

With VMware PVRDMA — the paravirtual RDMA device that takes advantage of any RoCE-capable hardware on an ESXi host — ESXi can support running workloads with high performance while still maintaining the flexibility offered by virtualization, including operational flexibility, better resilience, higher availability, and lifecycle management capabilities. This high performance is possible because PVRDMA allows for direct memory transfers (DMA) between guest memory to
the RoCE-capable hardware without CPU intervention. Using the RDMA protocol enables the potential for memory-to-memory zero-copy transfers between guests on two different hosts.

Release Note

resource/virtual_machine : Add support for the PVRDMA vmxnet3vrdma network interface adapter type. (#1598)

References

Closes: #1597

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[tenthirtyam]

Hi @cspnanda,

Thank for your contribution to the project! 🎉

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[tenthirtyam]

Hi @cspnanda,

For the CLA, you'll need to configure git to match the name and email in GitHub.

For example,

git config --global user.email cspnanda@gmail.com
git config --global user.name C S P Nanda

Also, it's recommend to add the following in the content in the body of your commit.

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Ryan

[tenthirtyam]

⚠️ Critical Reference: vmware/govmomi#2766

This requires introduction in upstream vmware/govmomi first and subsequent upgrade of the version used by this provider.

Ryan

[tenthirtyam]

ℹ️ Related Issues:

• Add support for paravirtual RDMA network interface adapter type #1597
• vRDMA Network Type Not Supported vmware/govmomi#2765

[tenthirtyam]

Hi @cspnanda,

Thank you for your contribution to the project! 🎉

Before this pull request can be considered, please ensure that you provide as much detail as possible in the submission. Unfortunately, no detail was provided. Could you also link the issue in the References with "Closes #xxxx"?

Ryan Johnson
Staff II Solutions Architect | VMware, Inc.

[cspnanda]

@tenthirtyam I have added Reference issue #1597 and the upstream issue vmware/govmomi#2766 is merged.

[tenthirtyam]

Hi @cspnanda! 👋🏻

Could you please complete the remainder of the pull request template which is currently limited other than the Reference.

This pull request and associated enhancement issue are tagged under the backlog and will move into a future release milestone when ready. It will be dependent on a chore to update to the release of vmware/govmomi` that includes the upstream capability.

Ryan Johnson
Staff II Solutions Architect | VMware, Inc.

[tenthirtyam]

Hi @cspnanda,

The project has recently vmware/govmomi to v0.29.0. Could you update your pull request to address the current conflicts?

Ryan Johnson
Senior Staff Solutions Architect | Product Engineering @ VMware, Inc.

[tenthirtyam]

Reminder:

Hi @cspnanda,

The project has recently vmware/govmomi to v0.29.0. Could you update your pull request to address the current conflicts?

Ryan Johnson
Senior Staff Solutions Architect | Product Engineering @ VMware, Inc.

[appilon]

I'll rebase this PR

[appilon]

Rebased @tenthirtyam

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