Virtual computing performance

Hi,
My department is running some own coded solutions, based in C sharp and MySQL, runing on a Windows XP computer. We will have budget for a high spec server and we thought in a Mac Pro, having all the current solutions running on a Windows virtual computer. The big concern is the performance, because it would difficult to explain having a ultra fast computer and worst performance than with the old machine. Any advice?
Thank you very much.

You were using XP, that can't have had much strain on any hardware you were using.
Apple does not support native support on the newest nMP Late 2013 of anything pre-8.1/8.0.
People run Mavericks natively under Mavericks - depends on how many cores you have, how many are to be allocated but a 6-core nMP would not break a sweat.
3D and games are never good candidates for VMs. But web server type tasks?
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