vSphere 5
NetApp FAS2040
I tried restoring a VM using NetApp SMVI, the VM was 40GB thin provisioned.
I right clicked the VM > NetApp > Backup and Recovery > Restore > Picked the Backup > Chose "the entire VM" > Finish.
The restore took seven hours and it re-inflated the VM to 1.3TB
This was completely worthless as I could have built the machine from scratch in that time and it nearly wouldn't fit on my storage.
Does anyone know a quicker alternative to restore a snapshot of a thin provisioned VM without inflating it?