I see.  I would just have to open firewall ports between the vCenter and the host management network.  Shouldn't be a problem.

There's no technical reason I am not VLAN tagging at the vSwitch level.  It's just more lack of network understanding on when and why to do it.  Physical VLAN's are easy for me to make sense of.

When you say "combine the management and vMotion VLANs on one vSwitch with 2 uplinks", are you saying the management and vMotion traffic will be on the same VLAN with the same IP subnet?  (sorry for my lack of comprehension)

By the way, I have free'd up more switch ports by configuring some of the iLO's in to use the "shared network port" feature, so I have enough to comfortably accomadate all 32 NIC's (8 per server).