An error occurred while recovering database. Unable to connect to Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MS DTC) to check the completion status of transaction.

You might get below errors when you try to restore database from SAN snapshot and see a Orphan Msdtc transaction Spid -2

Error

Msg 6110, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
The distributed transaction with UOW {00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000} does not exist.

An error occurred while recovering database Unable to connect to Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MS DTC) to check the completion status of transaction (0:12345). Fix MS DTC, and run recovery again.

Resolution

Change the sp_configure option
sp_configure ‘in-doubt xact resolution’,2
–Presume abort. Any MS DTC in-doubt transactions are presumed to have aborted.
Go
DBCC dbrecover(‘Dbname’);

Addition details on above sp_configure option in http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms179586(v=sql.90).aspx

Note: Use above option with caution