pnic is not active on vdswitch

I am trying to create a vds, but the problem I run into is my physical nic gets added but the uplink is not active. When I view the vds with the client the little uplink icon is grey shouldn't it be green. I am using the following powercli command to create the switch:

new-vdswitch-name$vdsName-location$targetDC-Version$switchVersion

Then I add the hosts:

Add-VDSwitchVMHost-VDSwitch$vdsName-VMHost$currHost-Confirm:$false

Inside a loop I add the pnic to the switch with:

Add-VDSwitchPhysicalNetworkAdapter-VMHostPhysicalNic (get-vmhostnetworkadapter-VMHost$currHost[$i] -Name"vmnic3")  -DistributedSwitch$vdsName-Confirm:$false

After the last command I check the host and see the pnic was added to the vdswitch but the uplink isn't active. Is there a step that I am missing?