Next you could have two ESXi hosts with a shared storage - a local NAS attached to them - if its a lab connect all three objects to the switch and put them on same subnet - install vcenter and viola you have yourself a good environment to spin workload in or experience the true capabilities albeit the starter ones of VMware. Mind you this is only the very first baby step towards virtualization and the first building block. For anything enterprise related, production workloads I'd recommend going the ESXi route. Installing ESXi on that box would mean you would have to have another machine to connect to it via a vsphere Client - you would also need to be on the same subnet so a local switch if you are a small shop could fit the bill. Let me throw some light on the use cases - if you just have one box and you want to leverage that for VM's that are for demo/training or to get a feel of things then VM Workstation is a good fit. Lots of good information on this topic explaining ESXi being a Type 1/Bare metal vs VMware Workstation Type2/sit on top of OS.
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