Closes #11279: Replace _name natural key sorting with collation (#18009)

* 11279 add collation

* 11279 add collation

* 11279 add collation

* 11279 add collation

* 11279 fix tables /tests

* 11279 fix tests

* 11279 refactor VirtualDisk

* Clean up migrations

* Misc cleanup

* Correct errant file inclusion

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Co-authored-by: Jeremy Stretch <jstretch@netboxlabs.com>

netbox/circuits/migrations/0049_natural_ordering.py

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+from django.db import migrations, models
+
+
+class Migration(migrations.Migration):
+
+    dependencies = [
+        ('circuits', '0048_circuitterminations_cached_relations'),
+        ('dcim', '0197_natural_sort_collation'),
+    ]
+
+    operations = [
+        migrations.AlterField(
+            model_name='provider',
+            name='name',
+            field=models.CharField(db_collation='natural_sort', max_length=100, unique=True),
+        ),
+        migrations.AlterField(
+            model_name='providernetwork',
+            name='name',
+            field=models.CharField(db_collation='natural_sort', max_length=100),
+        ),
+    ]

netbox/circuits/models/providers.py

@@ -21,7 +21,8 @@ class Provider(ContactsMixin, PrimaryModel):
         verbose_name=_('name'),
         max_length=100,
         unique=True,
-        help_text=_('Full name of the provider')
+        help_text=_('Full name of the provider'),
+        db_collation="natural_sort"
     )
     slug = models.SlugField(
         verbose_name=_('slug'),
@@ -95,7 +96,8 @@ class ProviderNetwork(PrimaryModel):
     """
     name = models.CharField(
         verbose_name=_('name'),
-        max_length=100
+        max_length=100,
+        db_collation="natural_sort"
     )
     provider = models.ForeignKey(
         to='circuits.Provider',