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VMware vSAN

7Judge labels

0First choices

5Negative labels

6 / 14Models named it

2Categories

October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

2 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. VMware vSAN was named 2 times in Enterprise storage and 1 other category, where Dell PowerStore led with 16%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business181 of 184

under the label threshold

Mid-market149 of 167

under the label threshold

Enterprise140 of 143

under the label threshold

In enterprise storage · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named VMware vSAN for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant	Since September 2026
Enterprise storage systems	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	149 of 167	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Dell PowerStore at 16%
Server virtualization platforms	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	38 of 78	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Proxmox VE at 42%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for VMware vSAN yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated VMware vSAN across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	Alternative	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	1	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	0	0

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative5 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative7 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Consider HCI: Nutanix or VMware vSAN may reduce operational complexity” Kimi K2 · Server virtualization · scale prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“VMware vSAN & Heavy HCI Bundles (Be Cautious)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Enterprise storage · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as VMware vSAN, over the 7 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and VMware vSAN was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Nutanix5 of 70Not among the top eight

Pure Storage FlashArray4 of 70Not among the top eight

Synology NAS4 of 70Not among the top eight

Cloudian3 of 70Not among the top eight

QNAP3 of 70Not among the top eight

Dell Technologies2 of 71Not among the top eight

Amazon S32 of 70Not among the top eight

Backblaze B22 of 70Not among the top eight

Ceph2 of 70Not among the top eight

GlusterFS2 of 70Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named VMware vSAN. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 6 of the 7 answers that named VMware vSAN and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

enterprisestorageforum.com3

gartner.com3

thewearify.com3

blocksandfiles.com2

cloudian.com2

i.dell.com2

mti.com2

nexsan.com2

ormsystems.com2

purestorage.com2

Twenty-three of the twenty-three domain citations in answers naming VMware vSAN came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

thewearify.com/best-enterprise-storage-solutions3

cloudian.com/guides/data-backup/best-enterprise-storage-systems-top-5-options-in-20262

gartner.com/reviews/product/vmware-vsan/alternatives2

mti.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/MTI-The-Enterprise-Storage-Conundrum-Guide.pdf2

nexsan.com/resources/the-pros-and-cons-of-on-premises-storage-solutions2

ormsystems.com/blogs/cloud-storage-vs-local-storage-which-one-makes-sense-for-enterprise-i2

scmp.com/presented/business/topics/gartner-mq-primary-storage/article/3280920/heads-cios-w2

storagenewsletter.com/2024/02/12/gigaom-radar-for-primary-storage-for-midsize-businesses2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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The company

VMware is the company behind VMware vSAN.

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On record

Company records

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Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when VMware vSAN's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as VMware vSAN, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for VMware vSAN by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where VMware vSAN is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name VMware vSAN, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.