The vCenter Server is dependant on the ProtectedStorage Service that no longer existas in windows 2012
ProtectedStorage is a dependancy for most applications using .NetFramework in Windows 2012. A simple workaround is to remove the dependancy which will not affect your production application anyway unless you have clustering features unabled for this application.
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