I figured it out, I did a ping from the Appliance GUI, to the ldap server fqdn and it did not respond. I did a ping to the address and it responded. I changed the ldap settings to go by IP instead of DNS name and it worked. Not sure why it is not registering in dns correctly but, I was able to setup groups authenication to Active Directory LDAP works.
Anyone setup the ldap integration for Unisphere vApp? All I get is an "Invalid Options" when trying to setup ldap, and the product guide for 1.6 or the online help is pretty useless. We are running v1.6.4., which was only release a few weeks ago.  Another issue I ran into was I tried to manually add the gatekeeper rdms to the virtual appliance itself throught vSphere client, but the appliance never recognized the rdms, they only way around was to add the gatekeepers from the vApp web portal.  Thanks,
Unisphere for VMAX vApp LDAP Integration