I am logged in as the same administrator that installed the SCVMM Admin Console on my Windows 2008 R2 machine.  I double-clicked on the console and got the "Connect to Server" dialog box and clicked "Connect".  This gave me an error of:

"Unable to connect to the Virtual Machine Manager server localhost.  The Virtual Machine Manager service on that server did not respond...ID 1602"

Then, I opened up Services and started the Virtual Machine Manager agent which worked fine then I tried to start the Virtual Machine Manager service and get the error:

"Windows could not start the Virtual Machine Manager service on Local Computer.  Error 1068: The dependency service or group failed to start."  

It is at this point that I am stuck.  If it would help, under the "Log On As" column of the Virtual Machine Manager service in Services, it is the administrator account that it should be.  

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

1- check VMM logs located at C:\ProgramData\VMMLogs

2- Make sure that you do not have any problem with WMI

3- Please check SQL Server and make sure that the DB is running

Also check similar post

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/nl/virtualmachinemanager/thread/11f59c86-992e-446f-9499-c9f4067df47d

Any feedback on this one? If you see at the top in this forum, you will find guidance on how to collect VMM traces to determine what's going on under the hood.

-kn

This is a known bug in VMM.
I think retain data caused this issue.
The workaround is
"Open VMM db,
  Run this:
update dbo.tbl_VMM_GlobalSetting set PropertyValue=NULL where propertyName='LastSQMEngineRefreshTime'

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Amr Tantawi | http://amradmin.wordpress.com

SQL SQL SQL - make sure it up!!!

Msg 208, Level 16, State 1, Line 2
Invalid object name 'dbo.tbl_VMM_GlobalSetting'.

THANK YOU Amr!!!!I have chased this issue for a month. Your fix finally resolved it. I had to manually Allow NULLS on dbo.tbl_VMM_GlobalSetting set PropertyValue and in Designer, turn off Prevent changes, and VMM FINALLY starts correctly after updates and reboot. Well done sir!

However I appear to have another issue now, although that fixed it at first, now every time I reboot this machine, the VMM console fails again with the 1602 error. It's a VM on Hyper-V so I can revert back to the snapshot but it's frustrating not to be able to update or reboot it. I have applied all VMM rollups and SQL service packs, no help. Any other ideas?

• Edited by mookyrooky 10 hours 28 minutes ago

THANK YOU Amr!!!!I have chased this issue for a month. Your fix finally resolved it. I had to manually Allow NULLS on dbo.tbl_VMM_GlobalSetting set PropertyValue and in Designer, turn off Prevent changes, and VMM FINALLY starts correctly after updates and reboot. Well done sir!

However I appear to have another issue now, although that fixed it at first, now every time I reboot this machine, the VMM console fails again with the 1602 error. It's a VM on Hyper-V so I can revert back to the snapshot but it's frustrating not to be able to update or reboot it. I have applied all VMM rollups and SQL service packs, no help. Any other ideas?

• Edited by mookyrooky Wednesday, August 19, 2015 8:47 PM

THANK YOU Amr!!!!I have chased this issue for a month. Your fix finally resolved it. I had to manually Allow NULLS on dbo.tbl_VMM_GlobalSetting set PropertyValue and in Designer, turn off Prevent changes, and VMM FINALLY starts correctly after updates and reboot. Well done sir!

However I appear to have another issue now, although that fixed it at first, now every time I reboot this machine, the VMM console fails again with the 1602 error. It's a VM on Hyper-V so I can revert back to the snapshot but it's frustrating not to be able to update or reboot it. I have applied all VMM rollups and SQL service packs, no help. Any other ideas?

• Edited by mookyrooky Wednesday, August 19, 2015 8:47 PM