Cherry pick relevant PRs to release-3.4

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What this PR does / why we need it: Cherrypick relevant PRs to release 3.4 - #3150, #3214, #3205

Which issue this PR fixes (optional, in fixes #<issue number>(, fixes #<issue_number>, ...) format, will close that issue when PR gets merged): fixes #

Testing done:
Ran sanity checks on a multi-VC environment and everything worked fine

Special notes for your reviewer:

Release note:

Cherry pick PRs - #3150 & #3214

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pull-vsphere-csi-driver-unit-test	93e64b9	link	true	/test pull-vsphere-csi-driver-unit-test

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