topic SMVI Restore in ONTAP Discussions https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/SMVI-Restore/m-p/5624#M1174 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I'm trying to restore a VM and it appears to be taking forever.&nbsp; It's been</P><P>3 hours now.&nbsp; It's not a big server by any means.&nbsp; It's 30 gig max.&nbsp; Just enough for 2003 OS and some AV stuff as it's the parent AV server.</P><P>I wondered if the job hosed and tried to run the repait again.&nbsp; Says it's in use, I stopped and started smvi service, still in use.&nbsp; Reverint to a snapshot in VMWare's VI doesn't take this long at all.&nbsp; Am I doing something wrong?</P><P></P><P></P><P>PS I am on SMVI 1.2 SP1 still.&nbsp; We have ESX 3.5 and ONTap 7.2.5.1</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:21:38 GMT 2025-06-05T07:21:38Z SMVI Restore https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/SMVI-Restore/m-p/5624#M1174 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I'm trying to restore a VM and it appears to be taking forever.&nbsp; It's been</P><P>3 hours now.&nbsp; It's not a big server by any means.&nbsp; It's 30 gig max.&nbsp; Just enough for 2003 OS and some AV stuff as it's the parent AV server.</P><P>I wondered if the job hosed and tried to run the repait again.&nbsp; Says it's in use, I stopped and started smvi service, still in use.&nbsp; Reverint to a snapshot in VMWare's VI doesn't take this long at all.&nbsp; Am I doing something wrong?</P><P></P><P></P><P>PS I am on SMVI 1.2 SP1 still.&nbsp; We have ESX 3.5 and ONTap 7.2.5.1</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:21:38 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/SMVI-Restore/m-p/5624#M1174 2025-06-05T07:21:38Z Re: SMVI Restore https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/SMVI-Restore/m-p/5629#M1176 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Well whatever half arsed state the netapp restore of the vm was in I don't know, but the smvi snapshot became available under the VI's snapshot</P><P>manager so I simply reverted to that snapshot the vmware way and it seems to be working. </P><P></P><P>Between this and the nightly snap job failing because of one or two servers timing out I'm not sure what we spent money on.&nbsp; Perhaps 2.0 will help?</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:08:36 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/SMVI-Restore/m-p/5629#M1176 2009-11-17T21:08:36Z