vSphere

Virtualisation Related Visio Stencils

Oct 252010

Here’s a list of Visio stencils and other images I use in addition to the standard. I am intending this list to grow as and when I come across new or undiscovered sources.

Veeam:

Quality VMware specific stencils.

vmware-esx-stencils

Josh Townsend – VMtoday:

Josh has some great stencils and images at VMtoday.com

http://vmtoday.com/2012/09/vmware-view-visio-stencil-download/
http://vmtoday.com/2012/09/new-vmware-icons-visio-stencil-download/

Data Dr:

Good for using some of the images and creating your own individual images.

SoftGrid Stencils

Cisco:

All the usual networking related stencils .but some really useful Unified Computing stencils.

Virtualisation Related Cisco Stencils

General Icons

Hyper-v Stencil

Some very good home made stencils.

Jonathan Cussons Stencil

VMware:

VMware specific stencils of very good quality.

VMware community doc 1

VMware community doc 2

http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-11498

NEW 2012 VMWARE POWERPOINT ICONS & IMAGES

Visio Cafe:

Huge set of stencils for any need.

Visio Cafe Home Page

Maish Saidel-Keesing:

Very good Stencils and PP.

Stencils and PP

Netapp:

http://www.visiocafe.com/netapp.htm

Citrix:

http://community.citrix.com/display/ocb/2008/07/03/Visio+Stencils+for+the+Citrix+Dynamic+Delivery+Center

EMC:

VNX Stencils (you will need a powerlink account)

https://powerlink.emc.com/nsepn/webapps/btg548664833igtcuup4826/km/live1/en_US/Portal_System/Image_Graphic/VNXe_Stencils.zip?mtcs=ZXZlbnRUeXBlPUttQ2xpY2tDb250ZW50RXZlbnQsZG9jdW1lbnRJZD0wOTAxNDA2NjgwNTk3NWEwLGRvY3VtZW50VHlwZT16aXAsbmF2ZU5vZGU9MGIwMTQwNjY4MDAyMDM3Zl9Hcmlk

https://powerlink.emc.com/nsepn/webapps/btg548664833igtcuup4826/km/live1/en_US/Portal_System/Image_Graphic/VNX_Stencils.zip?mtcs=ZXZlbnRUeXBlPUttQ2xpY2tDb250ZW50RXZlbnQsZG9jdW1lbnRJZD0wOTAxNDA2NjgwNTk3NWJkLGRvY3VtZW50VHlwZT16aXAsbmF2ZU5vZGU9MGIwMTQwNjY4MDAyMDM3Zl9Hcmlk

Xtravirt Presentation Pack 2.1

http://xtravirt.com/presentation-pack

APC

Useful rack stencils

VMware vSphere 4.0 Update 2

Update 2, vSphere 1 Response »

Jun 112010

vSphere was updated on June 10th 2010 to Update 2.

vCenter

http://www.vmware.com/support/vsphere4/doc/vsp_vc40_u2_rel_notes.html

New Features:

Guest Operating System Customization Improvements: vCenter Server now supports customization of the following guest operating systems:

Windows XP Professional SP2 (x64) serviced by Windows Server 2003 SP2
SLES 11 (x32 and x64)
SLES 10 SP3 (x32 and x64)
RHEL 5.5 Server Platform (x32 and x64)
RHEL 5.4 Server Platform (x32 and x64)
RHEL 4.8 Server Platform (x32 and 64)
Debian 5.0 (x32 and x64)
Debian 5.0 R1 (x32 and x64)
Debian 5.0 R2 (x32 and x64)

ESX:

http://www.vmware.com/support/vsphere4/doc/vsp_esx40_u2_rel_notes.html

New features and enhancements:

Enablement of Fault Tolerance Functionality for Intel Xeon 56xx Series processors— vSphere 4.0 Update 1 supports the Intel Xeon 56xx Series processors without Fault Tolerance. vSphere 4.0 Update 2 enables Fault Tolerance functionality for the Intel Xeon 56xx Series processors.
Enablement of Fault Tolerance Functionality for Intel i3/i5 Clarkdale Series and Intel Xeon 34xx Clarkdale Series processors— vSphere 4.0 Update 1 supports the Intel i3/i5 Clarkdale Series and Intel Xeon 34xx Clarkdale Series processors without Fault Tolerance. vSphere 4.0 Update 2 enables Fault Tolerance functionality for the Intel i3/i5 Clarkdale Series and Intel Xeon 34xx Clarkdale Series processors.
Enablement of IOMMU Functionality for AMD Opteron 61xx and 41xx Series processors— vSphere 4.0 Update 1 supports the AMD Opteron 61xx and 41xx Series processors without input/output memory management unit (IOMMU). vSphere 4.0 Update 2 enables IOMMU functionality for the AMD Opteron 61xx and 41xx Series processors.
Enhancement of the esxtop/resxtop utility— vSphere 4.0 Update 2 includes an enhancement of the performance monitoring utilities, esxtop and resxtop. The esxtop/resxtop utilities now provide visibility into the performance of NFS datastores in that they display the following statistics for NFS datastores: Reads/s, writes/s, MBreads/s, MBwrtn/s, cmds/s, GAVG/s(guest latency).
Additional Guest Operating System Support— ESX/ESXi 4.0 Update 2 adds support for Ubuntu 10.04. For a complete list of supported guest operating systems with this release, see the VMware Compatibility Guide.