All was well up until this morning at some time, then the VWware services would not start due to dependency service VMware Inventory Service not starting with the following error:

“Windows could not start the VMware Inventory Service on Local Computer. For more information, review the System Event Log. If this is a non-Microsoft service, contact the service vendor, and refer to service-specific error code 1.”

Log Name:      System

Source:        Service Control Manager

Date:          7/24/2020 11:24:54 AM

Event ID:      7024

Task Category: None

Level:         Error

Keywords:      Classic

User:          N/A

Computer:      VCENTER.superioruniform.com

Description:

The VMware Inventory Service service terminated with service-specific error Incorrect function..

Event Xml:

<Event xmlns=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event“>

  <System>

    <Provider Name=”Service Control Manager” Guid=”{555908d1-a6d7-4695-8e1e-26931d2012f4}” EventSourceName=”Service Control Manager” />

    <EventID Qualifiers=”49152″>7024</EventID>

    <Version>0</Version>

    <Level>2</Level>

    <Task>0</Task>

    <Opcode>0</Opcode>

    <Keywords>0x8080000000000000</Keywords>

    <TimeCreated SystemTime=”2020-07-24T16:24:54.795605100Z” />

    <EventRecordID>303199</EventRecordID>

    <Correlation />

    <Execution ProcessID=”524″ ThreadID=”8032″ />

    <Channel>System</Channel>

    <Computer>VCENTER.superioruniform.com</Computer>

    <Security />

  </System>

  <EventData>

    <Data Name=”param1″>VMware Inventory Service</Data>

    <Data Name=”param2″>%%1</Data>

  </EventData>

</Event>