VM hardware specifcations for new SCCM environment

Hi everyone,
My company has decided to implement SCCM infrastructure for the first time. We will be running it in VM environment with understanding that if the VM server needs more hardware requirements we will allocate more resources to the VM(s). Our infrastructure
will support up to 2000 client computers around the campus. Would you guys be able to recommend suitable VM hardware requirements for us to start building the VM environment? Is a separate VM server instance recommended for SQL installation? We probably won't
be using the reporting feature but it might be something that we will look into in the future. What do you guys think? 

I almost always recommend to run SQL locally on the same box, especially with environments of this size. For a nice guidance on the advised hardware have a look at this article:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh846235.aspx
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