I setup another blade center today that came preloaded with the vmware 5.1 image from IBM again. I decided to take a gamble and try vnics again. The nics are showing connected but I'm having some other network problems that I think are caused by this NIC.
Here are the drivers showing:
Name PCI Device Driver Link Speed Duplex MAC Address MTU Description
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vmnic0 0000:016:00.0 be2net Up 10000 Full 34:40:b5:c8:f0:e8 1500 Emulex Corporation OneConnect 10Gb NIC (be3)