Jpotucek (11/28/2012)

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I have 2 Instances installed in a 2 Node Cluster. Windows 2008R2 and SQL Server 2008 R2.

currently, all Cluster resources (The Quorum and both sets of Cluster Resources - 1 set for each Instance) reside on Node 1 of the Cluster.

What is puzzling is on the passive node of the Cluster I see the following errors in the Application Event Log for the Server:

initerrlog: Could not open error log file 'F:\MSSQL10_50.MSSQLSERVERDDI\MSSQL\Log\ERRORLOG'. Operating system error = 3(The system cannot find the path specified.).

MSSQLSERVERDDI is my Default Instance and the F: drive is a cluster resource associated with the default Instance.

Since no Cluster resources are currently owned by the passive node, I checked the Server's Services Applet on the passive node and see the following Services running:

SQL Server Browser

SQL Server Integration Services 10.0

SQL Server VSS Writer

I am trying to figure out why these services are running on the passive node and if they are the cause of the errors I am seeing in the event log.

Can anyone help me out?