Can QEMU+KVM be made to replicate most of ESXi features? Sure. Does it do it out of the box? Not even close. Case in point: QEMU now has support[0] for live mi

Can QEMU+KVM be made to replicate most of ESXi features? Sure. Does it do it out of the box? Not even close. Case in point: QEMU now has support[0] for live migrating VM's RAM (like vMotion) and disk images (like Storage vMotion). But I'm not aware of any publicly-released cluster orchestration layer that does it for you - so you may need to build your own. Happy to be proven wrong. [0] https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2015/03/24/live-migrating-qemu-kvm-virtual-machines https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2015/03/24/live-migrating...