Restoring new DB to SMB3 Scale Out Server Disk takes forever to initialize

We have a SQL Server 2014 DB installed on a VM running 2012 R2 Standard with Datacenter 2012 R2 as the host. We have a Scale Out File Server (SOFS) running 2012 R2 on two nodes clustered (CSV). The entire network is 10GB. SQL server is configured
to use the SOFS cluster for it's databases files (using SMB3 as a network share). When restoring a backup to the server as a new database restore, the process takes about an hour (it's a big DB 210GB). When restoring the backup over the top
of the existing database (nearly similar file/DB sizes), the restore takes 10 minutes. I have read about "Instant File Initialization" but that appears to only apply to directly attached disks where the OS can block allocate the data using
some "Volume Maintenance" permissions. The network traffic during the "initialization phase" seems to be floating about 700mbs, yet when the actual restore counter starts (reading the backup file and writing the data) the network
activity steps up to 6.5Gbs - sometimes higher - the count down appears to take 10 minutes either way. So I'm quite sure that the 50 minutes is attributable to the initialization phase. Which seems horribly excessive.
Has anyone had similar experience using this kind of configuration?

For these databases, we use the simple recovery model. So the log file is not very large (5GB compared to the 200GB of the data file).
It appears that it is spending it's time zeroing the MDF file:
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Restore: Waiting for log zero on FOO_TEST
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Restore: Transferring data to FOO_TEST
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Restore: Restoring backup set
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So it looks like the "Instant File Initialization" settings do not apply to shared disk resources?

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