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    irtualisation Scenarios or Business CriticalApplications

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    What We Will Cover

    Why Microsoft Virtualization for MicrosoftServer Applications?

    SQL Server Virtualization ScenariosConsolidation, BI and HA ScenariosScalability Tests, Best Practices, SizingGuidelines

    SharePoint Virtualization Best PracticesExchange Virtualization Best PracticesLinks to Reference Material

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    Virtualization Trends

    :Source : , ,Virtualization and Management Trends Forecasts and Recommendations ; ( );Enterprise Management Associates EMA April 2008

    h a t t y p e s o f w o r k l o a d s h a v e y o u d e p l o y e d v i r t u a l i z a t i o n. e c h n o l o g y f o r 2 0 0 6 v s 2 0 0 8

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    Customers are Reaping the

    Benefits

    ,Reduce server sprawl save space Save on power and cooling costs Optimize usage of current hardware resources

    Increase availability of business applicationsDelivers cost effective high availability ,Improve service levels less downtime

    Rapidly provision business applicationsQuickly test applications Increase administrative flexibility

    :ave Costs Improve ResourceUtilization

    nh ance d Busin es s Con tinuity

    gile and Efficient Management Building a physical server took almost our hours beforevir tual izat ion . - Hyper V has helped

    decrease this time to .0 minutes ,i t o F o r t e C h i e f I n f o r m a t i o n

    O f f i c e r o r l e y P a r s o n s

    We can o longer tolerate service.nterruptions , With virtualization we are creating a redundant data center in

    Normandy to ensure business continuity

    , ,m au ry P it ro u P ro je ct s A rc hi te c t ur e e sk to ps a nd M ob il i t y D ir ec to r B ou yg ue s

    C o n s t r u c t i o n s

    By the time we hit our i ft h v ir tu al achine , on a host we ve usually aid

    or the host . ,Long term we will be able to reduce our total data center

    holdings by .5 percent ,o be rt M cS k i ns ky S en i or S y st em s

    ,d m i n i s t r a t o r-a r t mo ut h H i t ch co ck M ed ic a l C e n te r

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    Microsoft Virtualization for ServerApplications

    i rtua l izat ion Pla tform

    us in es s C ri ti ca lApplications

    anagementPlatform

    Enterprise ApplicationsLin

    e Of Business (LOB) Custom Applications

    Database Communication

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    Collaboration

    - Hyper V

    =i crosof t Vir tual izat ion indows Server 2008

    -2 Hyper V+ ystem Center

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    Microsoft Virtualization: The Best Choice for MicrosoftServer Applications icrosoft Server icrosoft Server

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    * nly available with Microsoft irtualization ..Based on a comparison of Microsoft System Center Server Management Suite Datacenter with VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus with VMware vCenter Server Assumes

    , , , ..a five host configuration 2 processors on each host 2 years support costs for both products and no operating system costs included The Microsoft solution- .can use either the free Microsoft Hyper V Server 2008 R2 hypervisor or an existing Windows Server 2008 R2 hypervisor Based on Microsoft estimated retail prices and published VMware prices available at :// . . /https www vmware com vmwarestore / / .as of 08 04 2009 for purchases in the United States Actual reseller prices may

    .vary

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    Virtualization Deployment Scenarios for

    icrosoft SQL Server

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    SQL Server Consolidation

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    u Currently a variety of consolidation.strategies exist and are utilized

    u , ,Typically as isolation goes up density goes.down and operation cost goes up

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    Consolidation ConsiderationsMultiple SQL Instances Multiple Virtual Machines (VM)

    Isolation Shared Windows instance Dedicated Windows instanceCPU Resources Number of CPUs visible to

    Windows instanceUp to 4 virtual CPUsCPU over-commit is supported

    Memory Server LimitDynamic(max server memory)

    Statically allocated to VM (Offline changes only)64GB limit per VM2 TB Limit per Host

    Storage SQL Data Files with standardstorage options SQL Data Files usingPassthrough or Virtual Hard Disks exposed to VM

    Resource Management Windows System ResourceManager(process level)SQL Server Resource Governor

    Hyper-V guest VMSQL Server Resource Governor

    Number of instances 50 Practical limit determined by physical resources

    High Availability Clustering, Database Mirroring, Log

    Shipping, Replication

    Live Migration, Guest Clustering, Database Mirroring, Log

    Shipping, Replication

    Performance Good Comparable with multiple instances, acceptable overhead

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    Virtual Memory & Second-Level TranslationWith Virtualization an additional level of mapping is requiredSecond Level Address Translation (SLAT) provides the extra

    translation into Virtual Machine address spacesPerformance advantage over non-enabled CPUs

    Physical Memory Pages

    /The Virtual Process view /The Physical real view

    Virtual Machine 1

    Hyper VisorHyper Visor

    Virtual Machine 1

    Virtual Machine 3

    Operating SystemOperating System

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    SQL Server ConsolidationScalability

    )

    % CPU

    Throughput(Batch

    / )requests sec

    Relative Throughput for Windows Server 2008

    HeavyLoad

    Moderate

    Load

    LowLoad

    -PU over commit l mo st L in ea r

    Scale-o CPU over commit

    :esults Increased throughput with consolidation Near linear scale in throughput with no CPU

    -over commit mproved e rf orm an ce w it h Win do ws

    erver 2008 R2 and SLAT processorarchitecture

    :onfiguration : - OS Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper V :Hardware

    ( )HP DL585 16 core with SLAT HP EVA 8000 storage

    :Virtual Machines 4 virtual processors and 7 GB RAM;per virtual machine Fixed size VHD

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    SQL Server ConsolidationScalability

    :esults -Drop in compatibility of Istanbul processors with

    existing infrastructure~ %0 performance improvement with AMD

    ( )HyperTransport Assist Intel snoop filterfeature

    Keep cache coherency traffic between the two sockets from appearing on the external bus

    :onfigurationOS: Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 H -yper

    VHardware :

    (HP DL785 32 , )core and 48 cores withSLAT Hitachi Data Systems AMS2500 Storage

    i rt ua l M ac hi ne s : 4 virtual processors and 7;GB RAM per virtual machine Fixed size VHD

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    Virtualization for SQL Server BusinessIntelligence :i rt ua li za ti on Benef it s n cr ea se a gi li ty by rapidly provisioning

    -and scaling out BI components on demandReduce the number of h ys ic al s er ve rs ,

    save on power and space

    :cenar io Descr ip ti on ( )Business Intelligence BI components with

    lower resource requirements such as Data( ), ,Mart DM OLAP Cube Reporting Servers are

    good candidates for scale out and ideal forvirtualization

    ( ),Operational Data Store ODS Data Warehouse( ),DW SQL Server Integration Services could

    be physical or virtual depending on scale uprequirements

    ,If virtual put SSIS and Data Warehouse on the( )same Virtual Machine VM

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    Remote Site Consolidation with DBMirroring:cenar io Des cr ip ti on Help protect from data loss with SQL

    . ,Server Database Mirroring Automatically

    failover from primary to standby using

    .witness Consolidate mirrored database servers on

    standby site with virtualization Use mirrored databases with database

    snapshots for reporting Ensure there is enough CPU capacity at the

    standby site to provide acceptable SLA upon failover

    :i rt ua li za ti on Benef it s Better e rv er u ti li za ti on on tandby

    i te due to consolidation Cost effective disaster recovery solution

    without using costly specialized hardware Management efficiency based on SQL Server and System Center management tools

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    Hyper-V Live Migration Technology in Windows Server 2008 R2 that allows you

    to move running VMs from one physical server toanother physical server without disruption of serviceor perceived downtime

    Live Migration Process1. Initiated via in-box cluster UI, SCVMM, PowerShell2. VM State/Memory Transfer

    a) Create VM on the targetb) Move memory pages from the source to the target via Ethernet

    3. Final state transfer and virtual machine restorea) Pause virtual machineb) Move storage connectivity from source host to target host via

    Ethernet4. Un-pause & Run

    Host 1 Host 2

    Blue = ( , )Shared Storage FC iSCSI Yellow = Networking

    Green = ( )Live migration networking 1Gb or better

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    SQL Server with LiveMigration

    haredStorage, ,SCSI SAS

    Fibre

    LiveMigration

    1 2

    o st c lu st er

    1 2

    :cenar io D escr ip ti on Manage high availability with multipathing

    and live migration for planned downtime,situations such as hardware and software

    maintenance ( )Failover individual virtual machines VMs to other hosts within a cluster by using

    (Cluster Shared Volume in Windows Server )2008 R2

    Use Microsoft System Center Virtual.Machine Manager for migrations System

    Center VMM can perform host compatibility checks before migrations and manage

    .multiple Live Migrations with queues -Nodes in cluster can be active active Ensure there is enough CPU capacity for the

    failover nodes in cluster

    :i rt ua li za ti on B en ef it s o loss of service during failover

    .with live migration Migration is completely transparent to the user

    Improve availability with esscomplexity

    Better e rv er u ti li za t io n due toconsolidation

    Easier set up and management through System Center VMM

    Click Here For More Information

    VMVM

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    Performance & Resource

    Optimization

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    PRO Pack Technologies

    Partner PRO Technology

    Brocade Monitor IO performance from the server to the data in the SAN

    Dell The PRO-enabled Dell Management Pack ensures that host machines operate under normal power and temperature thresholds. Other PRO alerts include memory, storage controller, anddisk remediation.Citrix Workflows can be initiated to automatically start or provision VMs based on an entitys healthand automatically update NetScaler load balancing rules

    Emulex Monitor I/O rates across the HBA relative to maximum available bandwidth

    HP Monitor the following attributes of their servers: hard drive, array controller, power,temperature, processor, memory, fans, and alert on degradation or critical errors providing theappropriate recommended resolutionQuest Software For non-Windows Operating Systems and non-Microsoft application technologies, the solutionenables intelligent virtual machine tuning

    Secure Vantage Extends the native capabilities of Security Management providing users the ability to mitigaterisk and remediate policy violations across virtual environments

    i rtual Machine Manager RO Packs

    ,For complete list visit-htt www microsoft com s stemcenter virtualmachinemana er en us ro artners as x

    http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/virtualmachinemanager/en/us/pro-partners.aspxhttp://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/virtualmachinemanager/en/us/pro-partners.aspxhttp://www.ibm.com/itsolutions/virtualization/?cm_re=masthead-_-business-_-bzn-virtualhttp://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/virtualmachinemanager/en/us/pro-partners.aspx
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    -Hyper V ConfigurationGuidelinesHyper-V Root Configuration

    Plan for 1GB+ memory reserve for the management OS inthe root partition

    Plan for one dedicated NIC for management purposesPlan (ideally) for one dedicated NIC for live migrationSeparate LUNs/Arrays for management OS, guest OS VHDs

    and VM storageManagement OS and VHD LUNs should employ RAID to

    provide data protection and performanceChallenge for blades with 2 physical disks

    Hyper-V Guest ConfigurationFixed-sized VHDs for Virtual OSNeed to account for page file consumption in addition to OS

    requirementsOS VHD Size (minimum 15GB) + VM Memory Size = MinimumVHD size

    Account for space needed by additional files by VM

    Example for SQL: OS VHD Size + (VM Memory Size) + DataFiles + Log Files

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    SQL Server Best PracticesGuest virtual machines are limited to 4 CPUcores

    Best performance if VMs are not over-committed for CPU

    Test Network intensive applications foracceptable SLAs

    Use multi-pathing on host or within the VM toensure maximum throughput and highavailability for VM workloads

    Utilize either pass-through disk or fixed-sizeVHD for guest virtual machinesAvoid using emulated devices. Instead, ensureintegration components are installed andsynthetic devices are being used.

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    V irtu a liza tion D ep loym en t S cen arios fo r

    icrosoft Office SharePointServer

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    What is a SharePoint Farm? hat is a SharePoint Farm?

    A collection of one or more SharePoint Servers and SQL Servers providing a set of basic SharePoint services bound

    together by a single configuration database in SQL Server

    :ey C om ponen ts ( ) : Web Front End WFE Servers

    o Windows SharePoint Serviceso Web Application Service

    :Application Serverso Office SharePoint Server

    Search Service( )Index or Query

    o Document Conversion LauncherServiceo Document Conversion Load

    Balancer Serviceo Excel Calculation Services

    SQL Server

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    &SharePoint Roles VirtualizationConsiderations

    Role VirtualizationDecision

    Considerations and Requirements

    Web RoleRender Content

    Ideal Easily provision additional servers for load balancing and faulttolerance

    Query RoleProcess Search Queries

    Ideal ,For large indexes use physical volume over dynamic expanding VHD

    Requires propagated copy of local index

    Application RoleExcel Forms Services

    Ideal Provision more servers as resource requirements for individual applications increase

    Index RoleCrawl Index

    Consider Environments where significant amount of content is notcrawled Requires enough drive space to store the index corpus

    Database Role Consider Environments with lower resource usage requirements Implement SQL Server alias for the farm required

    ,For details see SharePoint Virtualization whitepaper at

    :// . . / / / - -http www microsoft com virtualization solutions business critical applications

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    &Production Farm Physical Virtual Mix

    :cenar io D escr ip ti on -Optimized scenario for high end production is mixed physical and

    virtual Index and database roles on

    dedicated physical servers to provide very high scalability

    , ,Virtual web query and applicationroles

    All servers managed by System Center Suite

    :i rt ua li za ti on B en ef it s n if ie d m an ag em en t : physical

    and virtual

    ynamic data center : scale-dynamically and on demandprovisioning

    TEST

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    Index

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    :Partner Evidence SharePointVirtualization

    :ource EMC Virtual Architecture for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Enabled by- ( )Hyper V whitepaper Click here for more information

    I RT UA L M AC HI NE S PE CI FIC AT IO NS Index server : ,dedicated for crawling 4 CPUs 6 GB RAM per VM & :0 Web Front End Query servers ,4 CPUs 4 GB RAM per VM Appli ca tion serve rs : ,2 CPUs 2 GB RAM per VM Domain con trol le rs : ,2 CPUs 2 GB RAM per VM

    DESCRIPTION Deployment with mix of&physical virtual

    servers

    , Web Query and Application roles are;deployed virtual

    database role is deployed physical Maintains resource

    optimization with PRO

    RESULTS Average response time of -nder 3 5

    seconds with %oncurrency with a

    heavy user load profile of ver 300K

    ser capacity

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    SharePoint Virtualization BestPracticesBest Practices and Recommendations

    CPU Configure a 1-to-1 mapping of virtual processor to logical processors for best performanceBe aware of CPU bound issues

    Memory Ensure enough memory is allocated to each virtual machine

    Disk Be aware of underlying disk read write contention between different virtual machines to their virtual harddisksEnsure SAN is configured correctly

    Network Use VLAN tagging for securityAssociate SharePoint virtual machines to the same virtual switch

    Others

    Ensure that integration components are installed on the virtual machineDo not use other host roles (use server core)Avoid single point of failure: load balance your virtual machines across hosts and cluster virtual machines

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    Virtualization Deployment Scenarios for

    icrosoft Exchange Server

    D l R d i

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    Deployment Recommendations

    Exchange application is not virtualizationawareCore Exchange Design Principles Still Apply

    Design for Performance, Reliability and Capacity

    Design for Usage Profiles (CAS/MBX)Design for Message Profiles (Hub/Edge)

    Virtualization Design Principles Now Apply Design for Performance, Reliability and Capacity

    Virtual machines should be sized specific to theExchange role (EDGE, HUB, CAS, MBX, multi-role)

    Hosts should be sized to accommodate theguests that they will support

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    Mailbox Server GuidelinesDatabase Cacherequirements are the

    same for physical andvirtual deploymentsTotal Send + Receive(75k message size)

    Database CachePer Mailbox (MB)

    50 3100 6150 9200 12250 15300 18350 21

    400 24450 27500 30

    Total Send +Receive(75k message size)

    Users Per CorePhysical MBXRole

    Users Per VPVirtual MBX Role

    50 1000 900100 900 810150 800 720200 700 630250 600 540300 500 450

    350 400 360400 300 270

    Virtual Processor Logical Processor Hypervisor and the VirtualizationStack consume CPU Reduce recommended MBX

    count by ~10%

    M ilb S C fi i

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    Mailbox Storage ConfigurationVirtual SCSI (passthrough or fixed disk)

    Recommended configuration for database andlog volumes

    iSCSI

    Standard best practice for iSCSI connectedstorage apply (dedicated NIC, jumbo frames,offload, etc.)

    iSCSI initiator in the guest is supported butneed to account for reduced performance

    E h 2010 Hi h A il bili

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    Exchange 2010 High Availability

    Database Availability Group (DAG)A group of up to 16 Exchange Server 2010 Mailboxservers that provide automatic database-levelrecovery

    Uses continuous log replication and a subset of Windows Failover Clustering technologies

    Can extend across multiple datacenters/AD sites

    Benefits of Exchange Native DataProtection

    Protection from database, server or network failureAutomatic failover protection and manual

    switchover control is provided at the mailboxdatabase level instead of at the server level.

    Support for up to 16 copies, support for lag copies

    H t B d F il Cl t i

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    Host Based Failover Clustering

    Host Based Failover Clustering HAUsing Host Based Failover Clustering and automaticallyfailing VMs to an alternate cluster node in the event of a critical hardware issue (virtualization platformindependent)

    What you need to be aware of:Not an Exchange Aware SolutionOnly protects against server hardware/network

    failureNo HA in the event of storage failure / data

    corruption Trend is larger mailboxes = larger database sizes =

    longer time to recover from data loss = DAG

    Not supported for MBX VMs that are members of aDAG

    Li Mi ti d E h

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    Live Migration and Exchange2010

    Physical Computer MaintenanceOperating System/Application Updates

    Hardware Maintenance

    Rebalancing WorkloadsDynamic Redistribution of VMs to optimizeworkload on physical hardware

    Green ITOff Peak Virtual Machine Consolidation

    S t G id li

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    Support Guidelines

    TechNet is the single source:http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc794548.aspx

    SVVP Support Policy Wizard is a greattool:http://www.windowsservercatalog.com/svvp.aspx?svvppage=svvpwizard.htm

    Always confirm SPW results with our TechNetarticle

    Check back for updatesClarifications published frequently

    S t bilit Q i k R f

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    Supportability Quick Reference Exchange 2010

    SupportedRoot: Hyper-V or any virtualization platform in SVVPGuest:

    Exchange 2010Windows 2008 SP2 or R2Mailbox, Client Access, Hub Transport, Edge rolesMeets basic Exchange system requirementsStorage is fixed VHD, SCSI pass through, or iSCSI

    Not SupportedCombination of Exchange Mailbox HA (i.e. Mailbox servers in a DAG)

    and any host/hypervisor-based clustering or migration technologies

    (e.g. Microsoft Live Migration, VMware V-Motion, etc.)Snapshots, differencing/delta disksUnified Messaging roleVirtual/logical processor ratio greater than 2:1Applications running in root partition (excluding AV)

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    Partner Evidence: ExchangeVirtualizationHP recommended configurations for

    Exchange 2010 virtualization usingHyper-V R2Sizing for 20,000 users, 512 MB mailboxes

    All roles virtualized and Live Migration for MBX

    serversHardware: HP ProLiant BL460c G6 (BL460c G6)server blade and HP StorageWorks 8400Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA8400) storagesystems

    http://h20195.www2.hp.com/V2/GetPDF.aspx/4AA1-2127ESizing for 5,000 users, 256 MB mailboxes

    All roles virtualized and Live Migration for MBXservers

    Hardware: HP ProLiant BL460c G6 (BL460c G6)server blades and HP LeftHand P4500 (P4500)

    http://h20195.www2.hp.com/V2/GetPDF.aspx/4AA1-2127ENW.pdfhttp://h20195.www2.hp.com/V2/GetPDF.aspx/4AA1-2127ENW.pdf
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    For More InformationVirtualization

    Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/hyperv-main.aspx

    Windows Virtualization Team Blog http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization

    Infrastructure Planning and Design Guides for Virtualization http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/solutionaccelerators/ee395429.aspx?SA_CE=VIRhttp://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/solutionaccelerators/ee395429.aspx?SA_CE=VIR

    Microsoft Virtualization Solutions http://www.microsoft.com/virtualization/en/us/solution-business-apps.aspx

    ExchangeExchange Virtualization Best Practices Webcast

    http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?culture=en-US&Even

    Exchange Server 2010 Guidance http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124558(EXCHG.140).aspx

    Exchange Team Blog http://blogs.technet.com/exchange

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