Thanks for the help.
I have been looking into this and found http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CEIQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vmware.com%2Ffiles%2Fpdf%2Fsolutions%2FSQL_Server_on_VMware-Best_Practices_Guide.pdf&ei=o32DUbbhJujU0QXi-ICABg&usg=AFQjCNFr00iwqsrBITYY7IIUmgyMzZRPVg&bvm=bv.45960087,d.d2k
Its basically a guide to SQL best practice on VMware.
Page 35 summarises my origional concerns although from what youve said the size of server I am looking at is way too big anyway and could be reduced to just one of the spec I am wanting to use.
Hopefully others will coment so we can get an average.
Thanks