One of the claims to fame of VMware's virtualization products have been their ability to perform very well over the last few years - creating a benchmark, in my mind, for others to reach and achieve with their own platforms. Performance has been and continues to be one of those hot topics covered in the virtualization space. People are always trying to squeeze out every bit of performance that they can in their environment, and rightly so. And along side of trying to architecturally and programmatically improve the performance of their product, VMware has also created a performance group called...