You're welcome. It's an obscure hobby but it has served me well.
I dug up the vmx settings. Here's a little more of a how to:
After creating the port channel, but before adding the ports, determine its MAC address:
net port show -fields mac
a0a will take e0a’s mac and change the first octet to 02. a0b will take 0b’s etc. In this example, it's 02:0C:29:5B:46: D3
Now halt the VM and edit its VMX entries for the nics you plan to add to the port channel:
#Change it to static:
ethernet2.addressType = "static"
ethernet3.addressType = "static"
#Remove the generated address:
#ethernet2.generatedAddress = “ whatever "
#ethernet3.generatedAddress = “ whatever else"
#Assign both adapters the mac of the ifgrp
ethernet2.address = "02:0C:29:5B:46:D3"
ethernet3.address = "02:0C:29:5B:46:D3"
#Set both adapters to ignore mac conflicts
ethernet2.ignoreMACAddressConflict = "TRUE"
ethernet3.ignoreMACAddressConflict = "TRUE"
Then save and reload the vmx, boot the vm, and add the ports to the ifgrp.
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