PowerDesigner supports all the objects necessary to build deployment diagrams.
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                             Object  | 
                             Tool  | 
                             Symbol  | 
                             Description  | 
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                             Node  | 
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                             Physical element that represents a processing resource, a physical unit (computer, printer, or other hardware units). See Nodes (OOM).  | 
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                             Component instance  | 
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                             Instance of a deployable component that can run or execute on a node. See Component Instances (OOM).  | 
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                             Node association  | 
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                             An association between two nodes means that the nodes communicate to each other. See Node Associations (OOM).  | 
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                             Dependency  | 
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                             Relationship between two modeling elements, in which a change to one element will affect the other element. See Dependencies (OOM).  |