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Page 1: Virtualization Technology and Directions

1© Copyright 2010 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved.

Virtualization Technology and Directions

David L. Black, Ph.D. Distinguished Engineer

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Business Challenges

Data growing at 62% annually to 800,000 Petabytes

Mandates to reduce OPEX and CAPEX

Hardware underutilized or overutilized

Reduce power consumption and footprint

Faster response to business changes

In addition – deal with all of this across multiple data centers

Virtualization is not an option, it is a requirement

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Defining Virtualization

Virtualization provides logical views of physical resources while preserving the usage interfaces for those resources.

Virtualization removes physical resource limits and improves resource utilization.

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Virtualization Comes in Many Forms

Each application sees its own logical memory, independent of

physical memory

Each application sees its own logical server, independent of physical

servers

Each application sees its own logical storage, independent of physical

storage

Each application sees its own logical network, independent of physical

network

Virtual Memory

Virtual Networks

Virtual Servers

Virtual Storage

Each application sees its own logical network, independent of physical

network

Virtual Networks

Each application sees its own logical storage, independent of physical

storage

Virtual Storage

Each application sees its own logical server, independent of physical

servers

Virtual Servers

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Virtualization Comes in Many Forms

Each application sees its own logical memory, independent of

physical memory

Virtual Memory

Physical Memory

Swap Space

App

App

AppBenefits of Virtual Memory

Remove physical memory limitsRun multiple applications at once

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Virtualization Comes in Many Forms

Each application sees its own logical memory, independent of

physical memory

Each application sees its own logical server, independent of physical

servers

Each application sees its own logical storage, independent of physical

disks

Each application sees its own logical network, independent of physical

network

Virtual Memory

Virtual Networks

Virtual Servers

Virtual Storage

Each application sees its own logical storage, independent of physical

storage

Virtual Storage

Each application sees its own logical server, independent of physical

servers

Virtual Servers

Each application sees its own logical memory, independent of

physical memory

Virtual Memory

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Virtualization Comes in Many Forms

Each application sees its own logical network, independent of physical

network

VLAN TrunkSwitch Switch

Benefits of Virtual Networks

Common network links with access control properties of separate links.Manage logical networks instead of

physical networks.Virtual SANs provide similar benefits

for storage area networks.

Virtual Networks

VLAN B VLAN CVLAN A

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Switch A Switch B

Virtual Networks Unify Network Traffic

VLANs: different classes of traffic share network – iSCSI, FCoE, NFS, CIFS, web, etc.– Unification: Reduce cables, interfaces, etc.

Limited interaction among traffic classes– Controls (access and QoS) for each traffic class

Servers

FC SAN

Ethernet LAN

iSCSI/FCoEStorage

EthernetFC

FCoE switches

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Distributed Virtual Networks: Virtualization across Locations

Overlay network extends VLANs over arbitrary network connectivity– Works over any WAN type – dark fiber, MPLS, IP– No network architecture change in datacenter – just add OTV edge devices

Seamless add/ drop of edge nodes w/o reconfiguring other edge notes

Distributed network virtualization– VLANs based on physical network resources across multiple locations

Core

IP A IP B

IP C

West East

South

OTV [Overlay Transport Virtualization] (Cisco)

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Defining Distributed Virtualization

Distributed Virtualization provides logical views of distributed physical

resources while preserving the usage interfaces for those resources.

Distributed Virtualization removes location barriers and physical resource limits,

improving resource utilization.

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OTV Use Case

Problem: Primary data center maxed out (space, cooling and power)

Requirement: Seamlessly extend clusters & workload across datacenters

Challenge: Rapidly establish network interconnect between data centers

• No new transport provisioning required (Dark fiber, MPLS, etc)• Eliminate months of re-design effort • Significant operations and provisioning cost savings

Solution: OTV!

Deploy over 

existing network  4  configuration  

commands per site

No Re‐design 

Required

Ethernet Overlay

One Logical Data Center

Automatic Fault 

Isolation

Data Center Growth Constraints

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Virtual Servers

Each application sees its own logical server, independent of physical

servers

Virtual Servers

Flexible Infrastructure

Each application sees its own logical storage, independent of physical

storage.

Virtual Storage

Each application sees its own logical memory, independent of

physical memory

Each application sees its own logical network, independent of physical

network

Virtual Memory

Virtual Networks

Each application sees its own logical memory, independent of

physical memory

Virtual Memory

Each application sees its own logical network, independent of physical

network.

Virtual Networks

App

OS

App

OS

App

OS

App

OS

App

OS

App

OS

Server Virtualization

OS

OS OS

Benefits of Virtual Machines

Run multiple apps on a single server. Increase server utilization.

Move applications nondisruptively. .

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Anatomy of a Virtual Machine

Unmodified Application

Server OS

Virtual Hardware

(X86) Physical Server

Hypervisor

Virtual Machines / Guests

A complete system encapsulated in a set of software files

Virtual Appliance: Virtual Machine stored in one file –

Can be used anywhere

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Comparison of Virtual Machine Approaches

Hardware Level

Multiple virtual machine abstraction layer locations

High-Level Language

Operating System Level

Virtualization Layer

Application Application

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Microsoft Hyper-V / Xen Architecture VMware vSphere ArchitectureThin hypervisor, no general-purpose OSI/O subsystem is in hypervisorHypervisor owns resourcesSupport functions: hypervisor processes

Hypervisor extends general purpose OSOS I/O subsystem shared with hypervisorResources shared with primary OSOS support functions extended to hypervisor

Hypervisor Architecture Comparison

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Windows Server 2008

VSPVSPWindows Kernel

Hyper-V Architecture

Applications

Windows Server 2003, 2008

Windows Kernel VSC

VMBusVMBus

Server Hardware

Windows hypervisor

Parent Partition

Child Partitions

VM ServiceVM Service

WMI ProviderWMI Provider

OSISV / IHV / OEM

Microsoft Hyper-VMicrosoft / XenSource

User Mode

Kernel Mode

Provided by:

Ring -1

Device Drivers

VMBusVMBus

Applications Applications

Non- Hypervisor Aware OS

EmulationEmulation

Xen-Enabled Linux Kernel

Linux VSC Linux VSC

Hypercall AdapterHypercall Adapter

VMBusVMBus

Applications

I/O Virtualization and Optimization

VM Worker Processes

Worker Process = VM “proxy” (management)

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vSphere ESX Server: I/O Virtualization

Each Virtual Machine has its own virtual I/O interfaces

Network: Virtual NIC with its own MAC address– ESX contains Ethernet switches implemented in software– Actual hardware Ethernet port behaves like a switch port

Network operates transparently

Storage: Virtual disk controller– ESX maps OS volumes (LUNs) to

storage resources– ESX contains a volume manager

and a cluster file system (VMFS) Can use storage from many places

• SAN, iSCSI, internal storage• NAS - Can store volume as a file

Storage operates transparently

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Pooling of Servers, Storage, and Networking

Server

Virtual Machines

ESXServer

Server Farm

Hypervisor Hypervisor Hypervisor Hypervisor Hypervisor Hypervisor

Virtual Machines / Guests

Enterprise Virtualization

Hypervisor

Network

Storage

Benefits• Partition CPU and

memory across multiple Virtual Machines

• Aggregate hardware resources into unified logical resource pools

• Utilize local or shared storage

Aggregate and share resources across servers

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VMware vNetwork Distributed Switch

• Aggregated datacenter level virtual networking

• Simplified setup and change

• Easy troubleshooting, monitoring and debugging

• Enables transparent third party management of virtual environments

OSAPP

OSAPP

OSAPP

OSAPP

OSAPP

OSAPP

OSAPP

OSAPP

OSAPP

VMware vSphere™

vNetwork Distributed SwitchvSwitch vSwitch vSwitch

Cisco Nexus 1000V

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Move Virtual Machines across physical servers – while running

Preserve transactional integrity during movement

Eliminate downtime and provide continuous service

Shift underlying hardware resources dynamically

Balance workloads to optimize computing resources

VMotion

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• Live migration of virtual machine disk files across storage arrays

– Relocate virtual machine disk files across shared storage live using Storage vMotion

– Complete transaction integrity

– Full GUI administration

– Supports NFS, FC and iSCSI

• Benefits– Zero-downtime migration

– Eases array maintenance

– Refresh to new arrays

– Migrate to different class of storage

– Upgrades, space mgmt

– VM granularity, LUN Independent

Storage VMotion

Zero-downtime migration

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Evolution of Server Virtualization

Self-Managing Datacenter

Automate

Capacity On Demand

Server Consolidation

Test and Development

Separate Consolidate Aggregate

Computing Clouds On and Off Premise

Liberate

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Evolution of Server Virtualization

Self-Managing Datacenter

Automate

Capacity On Demand

Server Consolidation

Test and Development

Separate Consolidate Aggregate

Computing Clouds On and Off Premise

Liberate

Hypervisor

Management

Virtual Infrastructure

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Capacity on Demand: Rapid Provisioning

Without VMware Virtualization

With VMware Virtualization

Determine server spec

Locate or purchase system(s)

Rack and cable system

Install/ config OS

Install/ config application Boot

system

Choose host

system

Choose template

Boot VM

Determine server spec

"We can deploy servers in a pinch. With VirtualCenter, it takes 10 minutes. It's absolutely fantastic to be able to deliver a server and have the applications up, have them tested and then put them in production in a matter of four or five hours."

-- Robert Buchwald, Technical Lead, Systems Assurance Team, Moen

Time for other productive tasks

Timeline

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Evolution of Server Virtualization

Self-Managing Datacenter

Automate

Capacity On Demand

Server Consolidation

Test and Development

Separate Consolidate Aggregate

Computing Clouds On and Off Premise

Liberate

Hypervisor

Management

Virtual Infrastructure

Automation

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Resource Optimization: DRS & DPM

Distributed Resource Scheduler – Dynamic balancing of computing resources

across resource pools– Intelligent resource allocation based on

predefined rules

Distributed Power Management– Dynamic optimization of computing resources– Place unneeded servers into standby mode– Common framework, different set of rules

DRS and DPM Customer Impact– Align IT resources with business priorities – Operational simplicity; dramatically increase

administrator productivity– Add hardware dynamically to avoid over-

provisioning to peak load– Reduce power consumption without reducing

service levels

Dynamic and intelligent allocation of hardware resources

Resource Pool

Business Demand

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Evolution of Server Virtualization

Self-Managing Datacenter

Automate

Capacity On Demand

Server Consolidation

Test and Development

Separate Consolidate Aggregate

Computing Clouds On and Off Premise

Liberate

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Flexible Infrastructure

Each application sees its own logical storage, independent of physical

storage

Virtual Storage

Each application sees its own logical server, independent of physical

servers

Virtual Servers

Each application sees its own logical memory, independent of

physical memory

Each application sees its own logical network, independent of physical

network

Virtual Memory

Virtual Networks

Each application sees its own logical memory, independent of

physical memory

Virtual Memory

Each application sees its own logical network, independent of physical

network

Virtual Networks

Each application sees its own logical server, independent of physical

servers

Virtual ServersBenefits of Virtual Storage

Nondisruptive data migrations, simplify storage management, and

increase storage utilization

Storage Virtualization:Block Level

Storage Network

IP Network

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Storage Virtualization: Centralized Aggregation

Inband storage system pools storage resources

– Underlying storage systems hidden from servers

– Extends useful life of storage assets by creating virtualized storage pools

Streamlines storage refreshes, consolidations and migrations within the Data Center

Simplifies multi-array storage allocation, provisioning, and tiering via common management

Storage Pool

Multi-Array Data Center

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Distributed Federation: Distributed Storage Virtualization

EMC VPLEX TechnologyFederated Information Access: “AccessAnywhere” enables geographic data distribution

Scale Out Cluster Architecture: Start small and grow big with predictable service levels

Distributed Cache Coherency:Load balancing and transparent failover of storage domains within and across Data Centers

VPLEX Metro

EMC and non-EMCarrays

EMC and non-EMCarrays

Access anywhere

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Distributed MirroringActive-Active Access A A

Aggregation of Storage devices Volume management

Remote AccessDiskless access to non-local storage

AA

Array Failure ProtectionLocal mirroring

Site ASite A Site BSite B

VPLEX MetroVPLEX ClusterVPLEX Cluster

FC

Heterogeneous Geographically 

Distributed Storage Non Disruptive Data Mobility

Inter-array migrations

VPLEX System Architecture

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VPLEX I/O Virtualization Stack

DirectorFE

Cache

Storage View…

Distributed Coherent Cache

Device VirtualizationVirtual Volumes

…BE

…Storage Volumes

Storage volumes represent claimed devices from back-end arrays

The device virtualization layer creates composite devices from storage volumes, providing slicing, striping, concatenation, and mirroring

Caching leverages local and global cache, maintains consistency between all VPLEX directors

Virtual volumes are exported out of front- end ports and exposed to hosts

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Scale Out Cluster Architecture

Centralized Aggregation Distributed Federation

Add additional appliances or controllers to scale up capacity and/or performance

Independent virtual storage pools (management)

Workloads isolated within each cluster (usually two nodes)

Larger engine cluster scales out performance and/or capacity as needed

Storage resources aggregated into a single virtual storage pool

Workloads dynamically distributed across engines

+ + + + + +

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Distributed Federation

Scale Out Cluster Architecture: Availability

Single node failure: lose half of storage I/O resources

Performance impact can be significant for active storage pools

Data is unavailable in the event of a dual nodes failure

High availability and predictable performance in the event of a component failure

Failover redistributes workloads across all remaining engines

Add additional engines to increase resiliency

Dual node architecture: Availability in the event of a single node failure

Better predictabilityHigher availabilityMore performance

Centralized Aggregation

+

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Cache Directory D Cache Directory F Cache Directory HCache Directory B

Distributed Cache Coherency: Write

Cache Directory C Cache Directory E Cache Directory G

Directory based distributed cache coherence efficiently maintains cache state consistency across all Engines

Cache Cache Cache Cache

Engine Cache Coherency DirectoryBlock Address 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 …

Cache A

Cache C

Cache E

Cache G

Engine Cache Coherency DirectoryBlock Address 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 …

Cache A

Cache C

Cache E

Cache G

Cache Directory A

New Write:Block 3

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Cache Directory D Cache Directory F Cache Directory HCache Directory B

Distributed Cache Coherency: Read

Cache Directory C Cache Directory E Cache Directory G

Directory based distributed cache coherence efficiently maintains cache state consistency across all Engines

Cache Cache Cache Cache

Engine Cache Coherency DirectoryBlock Address 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 …

Cache A

Cache C

Cache E

Cache G

Engine Cache Coherency DirectoryBlock Address 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 …

Cache A

Cache C

Cache E

Cache G

Cache Directory A

Read:Block 3

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Online Workload Migration

Site ASite A Site BSite B

VPLEX MetroVPLEX ClusterVPLEX Cluster

Heterogeneous

Distributed Storage

VMotion over DistanceHyperV Live Migration

OVM Live Migrator

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VPLEX Metro Use Case EMC solution

VPLEX Metro

VMware VMotion over distance

Microsoft SQL, SharePoint, SAP, Oracle

Symmetrix VMAX and CLARiiON CX4 to Vblock Type 1

Nondisruptive migrations and relocations to 100 km

Migrate and relocate VMs, applications, and data with support for VMotion over distance

Transparently share and balance resources between data centers

ESX Cluster A ESX Cluster B

Share, access, and relocate data between sites over distance

SynchronousAccess Anywhere

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Putting it all Together: Unified Virtualization and The Journey to the Private Cloud

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Key Attributes for Enterprise Virtualization

Scalable, high-performance architecture

– Infrastructure that grows with the business

Supports heterogeneous environments

Continuous availability– No single point of failure– Nondisruptive upgrades

Disaster recovery

Enterprise management– Reduce risk and operational costs

Incremental deployment– Easy physical-to-virtual migration– Deploy as problems and opportunities arise

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App Provisioning: Selective Virtualization

OS

OS

OS

Install operating systems

Authenticate users or applications

Allocate server resources

Storage Network

IP Network

Set up storage environments (disk, SAN, or NAS)

Configure networks

Allocate storage resources – leading reason for forcing systems offline

Effect

Effect

Effect

Online:

Online:

Online:

Point virtualization technologies can accomplish near-term goals but create long-term problems.

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App Provisioning: All Resources Virtualized

Install operating systems

Authenticate users or applications

Allocate server resources

Set up storage environments (disk, SAN, or NAS)

Configure networks

Allocate storage resources to and from the available pool

Online:Effect

Online:Effect

Online:Effect

OS

OS

OS

Unified Network

Virtualization of all resources: continuous online operation.

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A Unified Virtualization Infrastructure

Each application sees its own logical server, independent of physical

servers

Each application sees its own logical storage, independent of physical

disks

Virtual Storage

Virtual Servers

OSOS

OS

Unified Network

Virtual Networks

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A Unified Virtualization Infrastructure

Consistent models of the entire virtual infrastructureManagement: Enables end-to-end dynamic provisioning, troubleshooting, and optimizationSecurity: Enables transparent consistent security policy application, monitoring and compliance reporting

Managing and Securing Virtualization

Virtual Storage

Virtual Servers

OSOS

OS

Unified Network

Virtual Networks

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Virtualized Data Center

Internal Cloud

Cloud Computing

External CloudSecurity

Virtualization

Information

Flexible

Dynamic

On-demand

Efficient

Trusted

Control

Reliable

Secure

Journey to the Private Cloud

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Private Cloud

External Cloud

Virtualized Data Center

Internal Cloud

Cloud Computing

Security

Virtualization

Information

Federation

Journey to the Private Cloud

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Virtualized Data Center

Security

Virtualization

Information Cloud Computing

Private Cloud

Federation

External CloudInternal Cloud

AppLoads

AppLoads

AppLoads

AppLoads

AppLoads

Virtual Applications

Virtual ClientVirtual ClientVirtual Client

Journey to the Private Cloud

Distributed Virtualization: Foundation for Private Clouds

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Moving a Virtual Machine over Distance: Distributed Virtualization in Action

VM Movement Requirements1. Preserve Shared Storage Access

Example: VPLEX

2. Preserve Network ConnectivityExample: OTV

3. Move the Virtual MachineExample: VMotion

4. Optimize External Network AccessExample: DNS based route optimizationVery useful, not an absolute requirement

Distributed Virtualization used to meet first three requirements

Site ASite A Site BSite B

Heterogeneous

Distributed Storage

VMotion

1

2

3

44

VPLEX Metro VPLEX 

ClusterVPLEX 

Cluster

Network A Network B

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Private Cloud: Mobility Vision

Non-disruptive movement:

1. Any Workload2. Any Where3. Any Time

Reality Check: Can’t repeal the laws of physics– But magic (sufficiently advanced technology) is still possible

Private Cloud

Virtualized Data Center

Cloud Computing

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Conclusions and Recommendations

Conclusions:– Server, network, and storage virtualization

Virtualization benefits increase with extent of deployment– Virtualization can be distributed

Virtualization benefits extend across multiple locations– Distributed Virtualization: Key enabler of Private Cloud

Enables application mobility among locations

Recommendations:– Virtualization is a strategic decision

Don’t let short-term tactics disrupt your long-term strategy– Pick your partners wisely – virtualization is not a technology you implement

and then remove – it’s around for the long haulTechnology, services, and support

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Related EMC World Sessions (selected subset)

Server Virtualization– Microsoft Corporation: Microsoft Virtualization - A Technical Look Into Microsoft

Hyper-V and Microsoft Systems Center– Vision Into the Future of Desktop Virtualization (VMware)– vSphere vStorage Technologies

Unified Virtualization: Mobility– Cisco: Workload Mobility across Data Centers with innovations from VMware, Cisco

and EMC – includes Cisco OTV and VMware VMotion across data centers;

Unified Networks (storage)– Converged Data Center: FCoE, iSCSI and the Future of Storage Networking

VPLEX (sessions TBA)

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