In which case RAM is your critical purchase - everything else just needs to be decent. Remember that, in terms of RAM, you ideally want each machine to have it's own. So if you want to have 2 instances of Server 2003 with 1Gb of RAM, you need 3Gb of RAM + however much for your host OS.
What's your budget?
Personally, if you have the kit, I'd just bung something together and see how you get on and upgrade accordingly.
Also, remember, the selling point of VMWare is that any of the Virtual Machines are completely portable and can be chucked on any hardware in the future.
Oh, and if you're playing with Server 2003 - I always had the best experience by giving everything a network connection and using RDP from a totally different machine.
However, remember that if you want to play with the Enterprise side of VMWare (ESX etc) then I believe you need SCSI and things like that. |