We all know that the performance of virtual networking appliances (firewalls, load balancers, routers ... running inside virtual machines) really sucks, right? Some vendors managed to offload the packet-intensive processing into the hypervisor kernel, getting way more bang for the buck, but that’s a pretty R&D-intensive undertaking.
We also know that The Real Men use The Real Hardware (ASICs and FPGAs) to get The Real Performance, right? Wrong!
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