Virtualization icons and diagrams made available by VMware

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Feb 18, 20092 mins

Finally, virtualization architects and users can rejoice. VMware has made available a set of 2D and 3D icons and diagrams that can be used in your own presentations.

If you’ve ever had to create a virtualization presentation or diagram before, I bet you searched high and low around the Internet looking for a few good graphical representations that you could use. I mean, really, how do you best represent a virtual server or a virtualized application so that others know exactly what you are presenting?

If you couldn’t find the right icon or symbol, don’t worry. Though it took nearly nine years, VMware has stepped up to the plate and hit a home run for all of us by offering up its own library of VMware icons and diagrams for download on the company’s VIOPS Web site.

Virtualization architects will especially find this library useful. Located throughout 58 slides in a Microsoft PowerPoint deck, this library contains official, high-quality icons and diagrams from VMware’s own branding team.

And it covers the gamut of most virtualization environments, representing virtualized servers, application virtualization, virtual desktop infrastructures, vCenter applications, and more.

It also comes with a guideline document to help you sync your own RGB colors to match the downloaded icons. And VMware said you should feel free to use these in your own works as long as you do the usual “Good Citizen” thing of acknowledging their copyright over the icons.

You can find out more information about the use of this library and actually download the icons and diagrams by visiting VMware’s VIOPS site.