TQM – Total Quality Management Resources | ASQ

Continuous Improvement with Total Quality Management (TQM)

Our Business Process and Goals Strategizing service is designed to assist you with looking at your company from a long term perspective.  If you desire your company to continue past your ability to manage it, what strategies will you put in place to ensure that happens.  More importantly, how will you realize the impact your company has in the market.   These are the issues that, when resolved or approached, can open doors to new understanding with respect to your business.

There isn’t much talk about Business Process and Goal Strategizing when it comes to IT.  However, recently I was doing some research in this area and found that there’s not much on the internet as well.  Maybe I wasn’t using the proper search phrases, but it was difficult to find what I was looking for.  I was finally able to find some relevant content that I thought quite interesting.   Please review the ASQ.org site.  There’s some great articles and publications as well.

TQM – Total Quality Management Resources | ASQ.

Failover Clustering Overview | Windows Server 2008 R2

Late last year, I began working on a migration project to move a single Windows Sever file service to a two node failover cluster using Windows Server 2008 R2. The configuration was implemented in a VMware vShpere 4.1 tenant datacenter.  I was not able to use Windows Server 2012 because vSphere 4.1 doesn’t support it.  It has been a few months since the completion of the project, and I have had some time to reflect on the outcome.

The project was very successful. VMware provides a cluster setup document that was not overly complicated to follow. I was even able to integrate our existing Tivoli Storage Manager backup client into the solution with great ease. Now that the project is complete, I am envisioning how clusters might be scaled to simplify the management of an entire environment. Consider using Microsoft Cluster Services (MSCS) to power all of your higher level services, such as DHCP, File and Print, SQL Server, Exchange Server, DFS and other cluster aware applications. Could it be possible to setup say a ten node cluster to support all of your important business and LAN services?  Of course, if you needed more servers, adding additional ones would not be impossible.

In the coming weeks I would like to investigate this possibility.   First to determine if it’s feasible, and second, is it practical. It’s an exciting opportunity from my perspective, and I hope some of you might think so as well.

Failover Clustering Overview

What’s New in Failover Clusters in Windows Server 2008 R2

Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS) support on ESXi/ESX (1004617)