Some overdue responses:
@Josh - thanks for the help. I found out the bpdufilter setting. We have local disks on each host. Do we still need dump collector? we don't use auto deploy (I think).
@MKGuy - still don't know if we should use no ip address. examples in the docs and online are mixed when showing config examples for setting etherchannels up with vmware and citrix.
@all - We put a VM on the port-group in one of the distributed switches and gave it an IP in the subnet for the VLAN associated with that PG. Still can't ping it though and it can't ping the gateway for that VLAN. Any thoughts on troubleshooting? Here are the config of the ports on each host in that etherchannel:
interface GigabitEthernet8/9
switchport
switchport access vlan 81
switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
switchport trunk allowed vlan 81,896
switchport mode trunk
switchport nonegotiate
speed 1000
duplex full
spanning-tree portfast edge
spanning-tree bpdufilter enable
channel-group 200 mode on
end
!
interface Port-channel200
switchport
switchport access vlan 81
switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
switchport trunk allowed vlan 81,896
switchport mode trunk
switchport nonegotiate
spanning-tree portfast edge trunk
!