Error deploying DB for your application - Nullreferenceexception ResourceGovernor

A customer encountered the error below when deploying a new version of an application. 

It was determined that the SQL Server account used as the DB Administrative Account needed the "Control Server" securable/permission. Once this permission was added, the promotion was successful.

Timestamp: 05/21/2013 02:34:01 PM 
Application: Storage Controlling Services Version 1 4cffcc32-3d96-41c2-8263-1017fc958f9a 
SessionId: 2ec2d374-43c2-e211-864f-90b11c1862ab 
SessionActive: false 
ProviderName: Apprenda, Inc 00000000-0000-4000-0000-000000000001 
Tenant: Apprenda, Inc 00000000-0000-4000-0000-000000000001 
User: 7051fd78-7145-e211-8803-90b11c1862b3

Error event created by Apprenda.SaaSGrid.Data.Services.StorageManager from machine MACHINENAME.

-----------------LogMessage-----------------

The Storage Manager encountered an unexpected error during the creation of an application partition for the application 58a276a4-43c2-e211-864f-90b11c1862ab belonging to provider c5040e79-d1aa-4e5b-ac56-7f0656ffe4c8.

-----------------EndLogMessage-----------------

-----------------SurfaceException (System.NullReferenceException)-----------------

Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

Server stack trace:

at Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.ResourceGovernor.get_Enabled()

at Apprenda.Database.SqlServer2005.SqlServer.IsResourceGovernorAvailble()

at System.Lazy`1.CreateValue()

Exception rethrown at [0]:

at Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.ResourceGovernor.get_Enabled()

at Apprenda.Database.SqlServer2005.SqlServer.IsResourceGovernorAvailble()

at System.Lazy`1.CreateValue()

at System.Lazy`1.LazyInitValue()

at Apprenda.Database.SqlServer2005.SqlServer.StopThrottling(String name)

at Apprenda.Database.SqlServer2005.SqlServerDatabase.Undeploy()

at Apprenda.SaaSGrid.Data.AbstractADP.CreateSharedTables(ApplicationCreateInstruction instruction)

at Apprenda.SaaSGrid.Data.IsolatedDatabaseADP.Create(ApplicationCreateInstruction instruction)

at Apprenda.SaaSGrid.Data.Services.StorageManager.CreateApplicationPartition(BasicDataPartitionParametersDTO sourceParameters, ApplicationCreateInstructionDTO instructionDTO, Dictionary`2 predefinedTableNames, FileSystemUri provisionedSchema)

-----------------EndSurfaceException-----------------