Comment by gerdesj
>However, the magic word for both customer segments is "vMotion", ... . No OSS and/or commercial (including Hyper-V) solution is able to truly match what VMware could (and can, at the right price) do in that space...
Storage vMotion requires a hefty license (as does DVS and the other useful things, such as containers). Proxmox does it all out of the box at a very reasonable price point.
Hell, VMware wont even let you use LLDP until your pissing money out of all orifices. You get CDP only for "free".
After 20+ years of being a VMware fanboi I am migrating all my customers to Proxmox. I've had enough.
> Proxmox does it all out of the box at a very reasonable price point.
Live migration of containers via the CRIU featureset (checkpoint+restore in userspace, which is now part of the mainline Linux kernel) is also an interesting theoretical possibility - AIUI the Kubernetes folks are at least thinking about supporting it. (Live migration fits remarkably well with containers since it requires comprehensive namespacing of all system resources - abstracting away from any dependence on the local machine - which is also how containerization works to begin with.)