Well, I futzed around for about 3 hours bouncing the engine and the host, and finally I hit some combination that allowed me to save the configuration of the ovirtmgmt network on this host. I had to update my DHCP configuration to force the correct static IP address to the MAC (not sure why the host insisted on setting this node to DHCP when I configured it static everywhere, but we got it).
I now have one host started. Working on the next steps - importing the storage domain.