vCenter 4.1 update level & Lab Manager

Hello

I upgraded to vcenter 4.1 and have begun upgrading our 4.1 esx host.  We have a Lab Manager cluster and I got to spend 2 to 3 hosts for ESX4.1... Currently, all Lab manager VMs are running on the ESX host 4.0 remaining in the cluster of Lab Manager.  I'm unable to migrate virtual machines to host 4.0 to ESX 4.1 two other guests offshore in this cluster to improve this host to esx 4.1.  When I select a VM to migrate, I get the following after error message select a host ESX4.1:

"A general system error.  The virtual machine requires labmanagerhostserver/system.service.vmware.vsla labmanagerhostserver service, which is not available on this host "."

Before the upgrade to vcenter 4.1, Director of the laboratory has been upgraded to 4.0.2

Any hellp to resolve the above error is much appreciated.

Sorry to hear that.

I myself have strange problems with 4.1.

I have stopped using 4.1 at the moment and re - install 4.0 on all new blades instead.

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