VMM crashes when NIC team not completely up

Encountered some crashes today, after some troubleshooting I quickly found the issue, one of my NIC teams was not completely online.

Log Name:      VM Manager
Source:        Virtual Machine Manager
Date:          8/23/2013 9:49:14 AM
Event ID:      1
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      VMM1
Description:
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
   at Microsoft.VirtualManager.Engine.Adhc.HostRefresher.GatherVirtualNetworkInformation(Host host, List`1 networkAdapters, List`1 vNics, ITaskContext taskContext)
   at Microsoft.VirtualManager.Engine.Adhc.HostRefresher.GatherAllInformation(Host host, Object agentRefreshSyncObj, Boolean checkIfClustered, Boolean refreshEventCapabilities, String& clusterName, Guid taskID, ITaskContext taskContext)
   at Microsoft.VirtualManager.Engine.Adhc.HostRefresher.RefreshLockedHost(Host host, Guid taskID, ITaskContext taskContext, Boolean checkClusterStatus)
   at Microsoft.VirtualManager.Engine.BitBos.VMRefresherBase.UpdateHostToResponding(Nullable`1& prevState)
   at Microsoft.VirtualManager.Engine.BitBos.VMRefresherBase.UpdateHostState(IVMComputerSystemSummary[]& vmComputers, Nullable`1& prevState)
   at Microsoft.VirtualManager.Engine.BitBos.VMRefresherBase.RunLightRefresher()
   at Microsoft.VirtualManager.Engine.BitBos.VMRefresherBase.UpdateHostAndVMs(VMRefresherType refresherType, Guid vmObjectId, VM tempVm)
   at Microsoft.VirtualManager.Engine.BitBos.VmLightRefresher.RefreshData(HostReference hostRef)
   at Microsoft.VirtualManager.Engine.RefreshDriver`1.RefreshThreadFunction(Object obj)-2147467261
Log Name:      VM Manager
Source:        Virtual Machine Manager
Date:          8/23/2013 9:49:14 AM
Event ID:      19999
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      VMM1
Description:
Virtual Machine Manager (vmmservice:5568) has encountered an error and needed to exit the process. Windows generated an error report with the following parameters:
Event:VMM20
P1(appName):vmmservice
P2(appVersion):3.1.6018.0
P3(assemblyName):E.Adhc.Operations
P4(assemblyVer):3.1.6018.0
P5(methodName):M.V.E.A.HostRefresher.GatherVirtualNetworkInformation
P6(exceptionType):System.NullReferenceException
P7(callstackHash):39b5

nicteamfail

After a NIC disable and enable, life is good.

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