MSDTC Service Interrupted due to Low Disk Space in MSDTC Log drive (Cluster 2008)

Hi,
I am working on SQL Cluster 2008 along with MSDTC service configured for the purpose of Distributed transactions.
I was looking into cluster logs and found that there is fail over happened of MSDTC service. I have analyzed the event viewer logs and found the MSDTC service interrupted at particular time and same was restored automatically. Below is the
details of MSDTC logs captured:
Event ID: 4103, Source MSDTC Client 2
Description: Service: MSDTC$d02c9ba0-70c4-4b72-994c-30170ab14f2d is still running. Attempt to cleanup the service has failed.
I have gone through the Health status of server and found the cause of Service interrupt is due to high disk space utilization. I have verified the MSDTC log file but haven't found any error which indicates any issue from MSDTC service end.
Generally MSDTC log consuming 4 MB space and currently there is 5 GB disk space is allocated to MSDTC service.
I am still struggling to find the RCA... Please help on same.

Hi,
Event ID 4103 — Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator Service Startup.
You may try restart MSDTC service and then check the result. To restart MSDTC:
Click Start, and then click Run.
Type comexp.msc, and then click OK. If the User Account Control dialog box appears, confirm that the action it displays is what you want, and then click Continue.
Click Services.
In the Services pane, right-click Distributed Transaction Coordinator, and then click Restart.
The system stops and then restarts MSDTC.
To alternatively stop and restart MSDTC:
Click Start, and then click Command Prompt.
At the command prompt, type net stop msdtc, and then press ENTER.
At the command prompt, type net start msdtc, and then press ENTER.
For more information please refer to following MS articles:
Event ID 4103 — Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator Service Startup
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc774406(v=ws.10).aspx
Lawrence
TechNet Community Support

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