Add support for network protocol profiles

[wilderbridge]

Description

I'd like to see Network Protocol Profile (NPP) as managed resource in vSphere plugin of Terraform. We are using Terraform and Rancher. Rancher creates the VMs to vSphere, not Terraform. Rancher doesn't have IP pooling so my choices are manage IP pooling manually using scripts or using NPP. But since I'd like to manage my vSphere using Terraform, I'd need NPP support to vSphere.

Potential Terraform Configuration

resource "vsphere_datacenter_network_protocol_profile" {
     name = "npp-hosts"
     datacenter_id = "${vsphere_datacenter.onsite_datacenter.moid}"

     dns_domain = "terraform.example"
     host_prefix = "terraform"
     dns_search_path = "vmware.com eng.vmware.com"
     http_proxy = "web-proxy:3192"

     port_groups = ["${vsphere_host_port_group.onsite_pg.name}", "${vsphere_distributed_port_group.onsite_dst_pg.name}"]

     ipv4 {
          subnet = "10.0.10.0/24"
          gateway = "10.0.10.254"
          dhcp_present = false
          dns_servers = ["8.8.8.8", "4.4.4.4"]

          ip_pool {
                    enabled = true
                    ip_pool_range = "10.0.10.1#16"
          }
     }

     ipv6 {
          subnet = "fe80::764d:28ff:fe58:c94/96"
          gateway = "fe80::764d:28ff:fe58::1"
          dns_servers = [" 2001:db8:ef53::1, 2001:db8:ef53::2"]

          ip_pool {
                    enabled = true
                    ip_pool_range = "::36a4#16"
          }
     }
}

References

See vSphere documentation here https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.7/com.vmware.vsphere.networking.doc/GUID-D24DBAA0-68BD-49B9-9744-C06AE754972A.html

I didn't see any documentation about existing REST API endpoint for this so it might be that without that, this is undoable.

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[braunsonm]

Is there anyway to do this currently via the API or govc?

[rwl50]

This would be of immense help to those organizations that try to keep all their infra as code (like us).