Dunes Technologies, first company launching management products for virtualization softwares as I remember (please correct me if not so), launched S-Ops 2.0. Here some interesting new features S-Ops offers: • Virtual Machines fail-over with shared storage (NAS or SAN): automatically runs a clone of a virtual machine on another computer in case of virtual machine error detection. Both virtual machines share a single disk file. • Virtual Machines fail-over without shared storage: automatically runs a copy of a virtual machine on another computer in case of virtual machine error detection. Each virtual machine runs from separate copies of a disk file. • Backup automation: put virtual machines in such mode that it can be backuped (suspend or create redo log), creates a snapshot (if available) and drives the backup software at planned intervals. • Workload management: automatically reallocates virtual machines on multiple servers according to workload. • Alarm notification: Threshold values and e-mail/pager notifications can be set and users will be automatically notified. Release 2.0.1 is available immediately for Windows and Linux hosts and supports VMware ESX Server 2 and Workstation 4, Microsoft Virtual Server (beta version) and Virtual PC (beta version). Try it here.