I agree on the performance boost from the VI-3 point of view.
But isn't the largepart of the CPU overhead you're mentioning being caught by the TSO in the "physical" NIC's? I enforce the use of the latest virtual machine hardware version in combination with the VMNEXT3 interfaces.
I'm not saying it's ment for every single virtual machine. Most simple webservers can do with a VMFS. But it's more specific use cases like Exchange, SQL, Oracle, Large Fileservers.
Jelle.
Message was edited by: J.R. Kalf
added the mention of physical nics so there's no mix-up about virtual nics.