It's now clear that VMWare relies on Host's Inbox native drivers to enabled USB 3 passthru.
I am not too sure if it's appropriate to comment this on this forum, however I did give Oracle VirtualBox on Windows 7 Host a try.
I was surprised to find that it indeed was capable of making USB 3 passthru despite I have AMD USB 3 drivers on Windows 7 host.
A successful connection to USB 3 pen drive could be established and I could mount the USB 3 pen drive connected to Windows 7 Host on to the Guest OS thereafter.
Seems Virtualbox has enabled support for third party USB 3 drivers. I am not too sure about the various other drivers/vendors but at least my on AM4 board's AMD USB 3 controllers it worked.
Regards.