After exporting a VM why it is occupying more space?

Solution In Progress - Updated -

Issue

  • Export of vm with thin provision disk from File Based Data domain and Import to Block Based Data domain makes Virtual and Actual size of disk same.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.6.

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