Lab Manager to vCenter Host Migration Problem

Ok I have a weird one for you hopefully someone can help and if so TIA!!!. I have Lab Manager 4.0 running and I am trying to move all my Hosts and VM's out and over to Vcenter 4.0 so I can shut down and quit using LM and some of my hosts are having problems. I have undeployed all my Vm's off the hosts and went thru the unprepare process and moved the hosts to a new cluster that was not created in Lab Manager and some of my hosts are fine but some are not. On the ones that are having issues when I migrate a Vm to it I cannot remote or ping the vm but I can ping the Host. Has anyone seen or had this happen to them? Again some of my hosts that I have migrated had no issue at all but some are. Should I go and add it back to LM and add the host then go thru the unprepare process again and see if that works? Any help would be much appreciated TIA.
Thanks,
JE

can you try uninstall the lab manager agent manually from the host? Follow the KB for steps.
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1007029

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