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RParker
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Run no more than 1 vCPU per pCPU, or 1.5 as an absolute maximum

That contradicts consolidation ratios. You can do 8 vCPU per pCPU now.. so that 'maximum' would severely limit you. It depends on what your TS is doing.

Create 3 VMDK, One for System, one for a pagefile (2x RAM) on the fastest disk possible, and one for applications

There are numerous white papers that also dispel theory that 'more virtual disks' will give you more speed, or alleviate bandwidth issues, in fact it's more overhead for the VM to handle additional I/O you actually get better speed by running a single VMDK per VM. They still use the same underlying RAID controller and connection to your SAN, so you are competing with the IO within the same VM.

The rest is quite true, 64-bit VM's (if only for TS purpose), lots of RAM (usually 128 meg per user above 1G base -can't remember numbers exactly), but sharing the memory isn't a problem if as you say don't over commit.