Thanks jhoward. We do know about the self assigned IP addresses. Some brain fart said we read that there was an Aruba part in that - not. So much for what is left of our collective brains. See us go Doh! about that piece.
What is interesting and this pertains to the post by msabin also - we had set the DHCP Servers up for the two networks, but that appears to block the VLAN setup as Network Assigned via the Edit Network pages. Every time I tried to select the Network Assigned radio button and saved the setting was reverted to VC Assigned. Not sure the why there.
So last night I removed the two DHCP Server items - we now have no server definitions under the More>DHCP Servers page. I then went back into the Edit pages for the networks I was able to select Network Assigned on the VLAN page. We are running under that mode today.
Also per your comments about DHCP and resources. We are not that big a shop - the DHCP server is a Win2012 instance without much else going on. But I remembered after reading your note that Win2012 server has a wizard for split scoping DHCP. I walked through that last night (a 5 minute effort) and we are running under splilt scope today.
So far so good as the morning ramps up and users jump on wifi.
My thanks to both you and msabin for your comments and thoughts.