Visio Network Diagram Shapes

So i ll drag a server shape onto the drawing page.

Visio network diagram shapes. Visio plan 2 available as a subscription includes the all same capabilities as visio professional 2016 as well as cloud only features like visio visual in power bi data visualizer through excel and database reverse engineering dbre enhanced support for autocad drawings and more templates stencils and shapes are also only available in plan 2. Front and rear views are included for most. Whether it s a cisco router an amazon web services bucket or more abstract parts of the network like the cloud you can find the shape you need in our networking libraries. For example as in the following illustration you can easily show the ip address for a computer.

Firewall visio stencil template contains detailed data center and rack diagrams which use 2000 shapes to represent it. These shapes are considered as the exact photocopies of network devices and they are drawn in a way such that it can even scale port level details. I position the label above the shape by dragging the text handle. Cisco icons are globally recognized and generally accepted as standard for network icon topologies.

Creating a detailed network diagram with visio is an effective way to design and document a computer network as in the following illustration. With nine stencils and hundreds of shapes the azure diagrams template in visio gives you everything you need to create azure diagrams for your specific needs. Using the detailed network diagram template and the data link features you can create a diagram that shows how equipment is logically or physically connected add initial data to identify each shape. Faq and user s guide all visio products.

To connect shapes in this diagram more easily i. Design web apps network topologies azure solutions architectural diagrams virtual machine configurations operations and much more. I ll also add a switch shape which will connect the computers to the server. Icons for printed collateral visio video and multi media.

These shapes are exact replicas of the network devices and are drawn to scale with port level details. To label the shape i select it and type the label i want. You may use them freely but you may not alter them. The label shapes add on originally developed for the building plan templates in visio also works well with the network diagram templates.

If you are a mac user the stencils will also work with recent versions of omnigraffle by omni group a visio like application for the apple mac platform. Create detailed rack and data center diagrams using this set of 2 000 shapes representing network equipment from 3com apc cisco dell hewlett packard ibm nortel panduit and sun microsystems. The center of this network is a server.