VMware: enable backward compatibility with existing clusters

[OpenStack Infra]

https://review.openstack.org/120037
commit 73213acba9d99345068e6298aa2844af34939d34
Author: Gary Kotton <email address hidden>
Date: Tue Sep 9 01:28:05 2014 -0700

    VMware: enable backward compatibility with existing clusters

    When VC 5.5 creates a VM the hardware version of the VM would be set as 10.
    This breaks compatibility of VM's running on an older cluster. The patch
    enables the VM hardware version to be set. By default the value will not be
    set. That is, it will use the current supported version. If the admin wishes
    a cluster to be comptable with a specific version then they should set the
    value, for example with vmx-08 to be compatible with VM's created by 5.0
    and 5.1.

    In the event that the cluster has mixed host version types then the VC will know
    which host to place them on if the hardware version is set.

    The following link describes the versions - http://goo.gl/7lhmEm

    DocImpact:
    The hardware version will be passed as part of the flavor extra_specs. This will
    be with a key 'vmware:hw_version'

    Change-Id: I67f65feceab1eab6ec4e8f4934f1c8115ed1e812
    Closes-bug: #1367151

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/138966

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Reviewed: https://review.openstack.org/138966
Committed: https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/openstack-manuals/commit/?id=330e5cb319c385f9d7ce0b726406b4362b3c399b
Submitter: Jenkins
Branch: master

commit 330e5cb319c385f9d7ce0b726406b4362b3c399b
Author: Joseph Robinson <email address hidden>
Date: Thu Dec 4 17:14:34 2014 +1000

    Added VMware hardware version key information

    Added a description and information on the
    VMware hardware version key, which enables setting
    VM hardware versions for backward compatibility
    with clusters.

    Change-Id: Ie1279b4bfbc7cda1ac5ae09e941426f05586d534
    backport: none
    Closes-Bug: #1398162

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

This issue was fixed in the openstack/openstack-manuals 15.0.0 release.