What else is the system doing when you're performing the snap restore? How busy are the disks (I personally disagree w/VMs on SATA disks), etc? All it's doing is changing where the pointers are aimed so it /should/ be quick. I honestly dont think *I* have ever told anyone they're instantaneous just "near instantaneous"...
What is "quite a while" too? Did you perform that restore command via an SSH call to the system with "time" before it to see how long the overall command execution took?
Feb 4, 2013 03:28:39 AM, avi@jct.ac.il wrote:
marketing continuously claim that snap restore is instantaneous.yet I have yet to succeeded doing so. "snap restore" of files to a location quite a while and is "copying the files" nothing close to instantaneous. i would be happy to understand what i am missing. the following is a example of a virtual disk that was restored, it took quite a while to "restore"=copy this 80gb file.
snap restore -t file -s nightly.0 /vol/vmsata/vmfs1/lms-client/lms-clinet-flat.vmdk Avi--