IT Engineer’s Toolbox

Infrastructure & Storage tools

Size storage and virtual machines, compare RAID layouts and plan backups.

Infrastructure & Storage

Compare usable storage and disk-failure tolerance for common RAID levels.

Compare decimal storage units with binary storage units.

Convert a sustained throughput and block size into operations per second.

Estimate throughput from operations per second and bytes per operation.

Estimate how many equal virtual machines fit within CPU and memory allocations.

Compare allocated virtual CPU cores with physical CPU cores.

Compare allocated memory with physical memory.

Estimate the transfer time needed to complete a backup.

Estimate retained full and incremental backup storage after compression.

Compare original data size with its compressed stored size.

Compare logical data size with the amount physically stored.

Project storage growth by applying the same monthly percentage repeatedly.