Visio stencils for VMware - icons and diagrams

Update 2023.06.16: It's been a while since this page has been updated. But there still seems to be interest in Visio Stencils. The latest relevant links I have found are: This first link to virtualg.uk and a secondary one that links to Github, link here. The Github link has installation instructions in the Readme file as well.

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When making visio diagrams of virtual infrastructures, there are plenty of icons for depicting the IT infrastructure. But when it comes to VMware and virtualization specific icons, then Visio is all out. Earlier on, one could go to the VMware VIOPS page to download the official VMware stencils. Today, it seems, that VMware is releasing only the icons in Powerpoint format. These (ppt icons) can be downloaded here.

Maish Saidel-Keesing over at Technodrone has taken it upon him to convert these icons and diagrams into a set of Visio stencils which will give you all you need for making boss friendly diagrams (latest update 2012.06.11). These stencils are compatible with Visio 2010.

The VMware Visio stencils can be downloaded here.

A new set of VMware View stencils has been release on 2012.09.17 by Joshua Townsend at vmtoday.com

Draw a nice Visio digram from your VC using Powershell

If you have been drawing infrastructure diagrams in Visio of your company setup, you know how cumbersome it can be - especially as the infrastructure changes often. In stead of manually changing your Visio drawings, here's a new tool, that can depict an exact copy of your Virtual Center (now vCenter) or a given cluster - or from a given host - in Visio.

You need to have Powershell and VI Toolkit installed to run script. See here for installation instructions.

1. Go to Virtu-al for further instructions. Download the vDiagram.zip file.
2. Once extracted copy the 'My-VI-Shapes.vss' file to your 'My Documents\My Shapes' folder. If the folder does not exist create it and copy the file in.
3. Run the powershell script (Start-> VMware VI Toolkit -> VMware VI Toolkit ) with the following options:
To diagram the entire Infrastructure:
vDiagram.ps1 -VIServer MYVISERVER or HOST
To diagram a specific cluster use the following:
vDiagram.ps1 -VIServer MYVISERVER -Cluster "Production Cluster"