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Internal Use - Confidential

Architecting an All-Flash Data Center with Converged Systems

Robert Swanepoel – Principal vArchitect

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HARD DISK

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Flash – A Fundamental Shift!

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B

$0.10

$1.00

$10.00

$100.00

2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018 2020

15K HDD

FLASH

CROSS-OVER

SOURCE: EMC MARKET RESEARCH 2016

Why Flash?—Economical Factor

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Flash—A Game Changer In Storage

Linear Performance

Reliability

Low Latency

Scalability

Higher IOPS

Operational TCO

Faster Backups

Denser Capacity

Critical Applications

More storage per Floor Tile

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Advantages of FlashAcross the Data Center Teams

UNMATCHED ECONOMICSUNPRECEDENTED PERFORMANCE MAXIMUM BUSINESS AGILITY

IT CIO APPLICATION

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More performance, lower TCO

Dell EMC’s All flash Portfolio

VxRack 1000

FLEX, SDDC Nodes

VxRail Appliance

All Flash Nodes

Vblock &

VxBlock 350

Unity All Flash

Vblock &

VxBlock 540

XtremIO All Flash

Vblock &

VxBlock 740

VMAX All Flash

Powered by Intel®

Xeon® Processors

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Exclusive partnership between Dell EMC and VMware

Dell EMC VxRail hyper-converged appliance

Virtual desktopsDeploy hundreds of desktops

in minutes on one appliance

Hybrid cloudSeamless backup and replication to

the cloud

Server workloadsStandardize and consolidate

infrastructure for all

remote/departmental workloads

Distributed enterpriseManage and Orchestrate across locations

with no downtime

Non-disruptive

SDDC scale out

Integrated

data protection

Data efficiency

services

Multiple configuration

& scale points

Powered by Intel®

Xeon® Processors

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Unmatched Capabilities and Value VxRail All Flash Models Provide Tremendous Value

MOST CAPACITY

BEST PERFORMANCE

LOWEST $/GB AND TCODE-DUPLICATION COMPRESSION ERASURE CODING

COMPARED TO HYBRID

VERSUS COMPETITORS 2X MORE FLASH

HYBRID PRICES

AS LOW AS $1/GBEFFECTIVE CAPACITY AT STREET PRICE

Powered by Intel®

Xeon® Processors

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Dell EMC VxRack™ System 1000

Start small, Grow BIG

Simple to manage, upgrade and sustain

Fully integrated rack-scale fabric

Software-defined for workload flexibility

Built-in networking

ENTERPRISE DATA CENTER

Traditional and Cloud Native Workloads

Powered by Intel®

Xeon® Processors

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“Engineered system” experience

Dell EMC Vblock and VxBlock SystemsProven and Trusted

ENTERPRISE DATA CENTER

Optimized for Traditional Workloads

Modular design for data center scale

Best-in-class hardware and software

Powered by Intel®

Xeon® Processors

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Block Flash PortfolioAddressing Specific Market Needs

Mid-range systems High end systems

Vblock and

VxBlock 350

Vblock and

VxBlock 540

Vblock and

VxBlock 740

Powered by Intel®

Xeon® Processors

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Vblock and

VxBlock 740

Block Flash PortfolioVarious Capacity Targets for Different Data Services

Vblock and

VxBlock 350

Vblock and

VxBlock 540

Up to

2.8 PB

Up to

2.0 PB

Up to

4.2 PB

Low latency and linear scalable performance

Powered by Intel®

Xeon® Processors

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Vblock and

VxBlock 740

Block Flash PortfolioSimilarities Across Different Systems

Vblock and

VxBlock 350

Vblock and

VxBlock 540

All-Flash storage

Linear scalable performance

Consistent low latency at scale

Ideal for high performance workloads

Operational TCO

Powered by Intel®

Xeon® Processors

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Vblock and

VxBlock 740

Block Flash PortfolioUnique System Characteristics

Vblock and

VxBlock 350

Vblock and

VxBlock 540

World class DR and BCDatabase consolidationVirtual edition

Multi dimensional scaleInline data servicesUnified replication and snapshots

Offers two RAID typesXDP-optimize for Flash no RAIDMultiple RAID options

SLO based provisioningZero planning & tuningAuto balancing

Block and file workloadBlock only workloadUnified workload

Inline compressionDedupe and compressionInline Compression

Up to 4.2PB capacityUp to 2PB capacityUp to 2.8PB capacity

Powered by Intel®

Xeon® Processors

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Simple to manage

Unified storage

• All Inclusive array based

software

• HTML5 UI

• Proactive management

Simple

VxBlock system 350 with Unity

• All-Flash design

• Automated Tiering

• Also supports virtual &

purpose-built

Modern

• Unity 300(F), 400(F),

500(F) & 600(F)

• Unified: File & Block

• Start small and scale to

PB

Flexible

Powered by Intel®

Xeon® Processors

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Superbefficiency

Linearscale-out

VxBlock system 540 with XtremIO

• All-flash array leader

• All-Flash architecture

• 2 to 16 N-way active

controllers

All-Flash

• Linear scale IOPS &

capacity

• Optimized data services

• Leading data protection

Scale-out Services

• Policy-based framework

• App admin self-service

• iCDM – integrated Data

Copy Management

Application-Centric

Powered by Intel®

Xeon® Processors

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High performance

Massive capacity

VxBlock system 740 with VMAX All-Flash

• Scale-up and scale-out

• All-flash architecture

• Rich data services incl.

inline compression and

embedded services

Modernize

• Appliance-based

packaging

• Easy management built

around one service level

(Diamond)

Simplify

• Extreme performance to

consolidate block, file

• Stand-alone or

converged

• VMAX 250/450/850 F/FX

Consolidate

Powered by Intel®

Xeon® Processors

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Scaling your VxBlock Systems and Vblock Systems

Dell EMC storage

Cisco UCS servers

Add expansions of

compute or storage

resources into existing

systems within its original

parameters

Add Converged

Technology Extensions to

expand your systems

benefits outside of its

original parameters

Powered by Intel®

Xeon® Processors

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Transactional Workloads are the first to go All Flash

Performance

AdvancedDataServices

NoData

Services

Capacity

Transaction

Processing

VM

Infrastructure

Decision

Support

Content

Management

IT

Applications

Online

Backup

Online

Archive

Full Motion Video

High

Performance

Computing

Web

Content

StorageAs-A-Service

Email

Tech

Apps

File

Sync &

Share

Data

AnalyticsHome

Directories

Application

Development

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Dell EMC VxBlock® System 350 Leading Use Cases

MIXED USE X-AS-A-SERVICE CUSTOM APPLICATIONS

Ideal for Retail Workload

Lowest GB per $Scales at a Higher Rate

Higher Number of Domains

• Boost Application Responsiveness

and Remove

IO bottleneck

• TCO from consolidating several

databases on single storage platform

• Low Entry for GB per Dollar

• Native FC at Mid-Tier

• Private cloud at mid-tier and mixed

workload consolidation

• Mission-critical applications

and virtualization

• Application-as-a-Service

• Ideal for retail databases, OLTP,

Virtualized Server, and machine-

generated data

• Improved Cache, no data movement if

it resides on SSD

• Unified for transactional NAS

• Efficient and Faster Backups

• Efficient copies of Database through

Snaps

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VIRTUAL DESKTOPS

AND DAAS

DATABASE AND

BUSINESS APPLICATIONS

DEVOPS

• Uncompromising end user experience

at scale

• Simple storage configurations

• Lower TCO with comparable

solutions

• Consolidate production,

Test/Development, test,

BI/analytics/reporting instances

• Solve the toughest SLA challenges

• Zero impact Data Services

• Performance improvements in

production and QA with enhanced

snapshot technology

• Reduce number of schemas, indices,

database instances

• 30% faster database App

development, 80% saving DBA

operations

Best User

Experience

Consistent

Performance

Provisioning

Simplicity

No Complex

Setup/tuning

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CUSTOM APPLICATIONSMIXED USECLOUD AND VIRTUAL SERVER INFRASTRUCTURE

Simple SLOProvisioning

Scalable Performance

Data Consolidation

Local and Remote Replication

• Private cloud mixed workload

consolidation

• Mission-critical applications and

virtualization

• Application-as-a-Service

• Cloud-scale TCO savings for

CAPEX and OPEX

• DBA time savings through faster

troubleshooting

• TCO from consolidating storage

infrastructure

• Faster Provisioning

• Start small and grow based on your

business needs

• ACTIVE/ACTIVE Data Centers

• Provisioning based on App or

Database

• Robust Cache Protection

• Efficient and Faster Backups

• Efficient copies of Database through

SnapVX

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Related Resources

• Customer Case Studies

• IDC Whitepaper: The Business Value of Dell EMC Vblock Systems

• Summary Stats: The Business Value Of Dell EMC Vblock Systems: Leveraging Convergence To

Drive Business Agility

• Dell EMC Portfolio Whiteboard Video

• EMC.com > Converged Infrastructure

• EMC Enablement Center for Vblock

http://www.vce.com/about#featured-customer

https://www.emc.com/auth/rcoll/whitepaper/idc-business-value-whitepaper.pdf

https://www.emc.com/auth/rcoll/whitepaper/idc-whitepaper-may-2015-summary.docx

https://www.emc.com/video-collateral/demos/microsites/mediaplayer-video/vce-portfolio-whiteboard-video.htm

http://www.emc.com/en-us/converged-infrastructure/solutions.htm

https://www.emc.com/auth/rpage/ec-for-vce-vblock-and-vxblock.htm

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THE LARGEST 2.5” HARD DRIVE IN THE WORLD, IS FLASH!

FLASH VALUE VECTORS?

z48 Layer 3D V-NAND

16TB

Samsung PM1633a Shipping early 2016

CAPACITY DENSITY

2.4X10K HDD Density

PERFORMANCE

Consistent 1ms Response Time

Up to 10K IOPS

RELIABILITY

Lowest rate of failure

4X Better MTBF than HDD

10X Fewer Replacements

Faster Rebuilds

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MAXIMUM PERFORMANCE & DENSITY WITH THE LOWEST COST

MODERN, ALL-FLASH DESIGN

Lead the Market in

Converged & Hyper

Converged Platforms

MAX SPEED

• Up to 295K IOPS in 2U*

• Intel Haswell CPUs

• Linear, Multi-Core scaling

MAX DENSITY

• 80TB in 2U rack space

• 3D TLC NAND support

• 3.2TB drive support

LOWEST COST

• Best Flash entry price $18K

• Best $/GB and TCO

• Best value per Rack U

FLASH FORWARD WITH UNITY

Test Profile: Small Block Random (8KB, 80/20 R:W)

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ULTIMATE IN SCALABILITY

64-BIT SCALABLE FILE SYSTEM

365TB

0TB

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NEW SW COMPONENTS LEVERAGED IN A NEW SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE

THE UNITY OPERATING ENVIRONMENT

SystemMaximum FAST

Cache

Unity 300 800 GB

Unity 400 1.2 TB

Unity 500 3.2 TB

Unity 600 6.0 TB

Multi-Core Architecture

• Cache

• FAST Cache

• RAID

Unified Pool

Block(Thick/Thin LUNs)

File System(64-bit)

VVOLs

Unified

Control

Path

Protocol End Points

Replication

Unified

Svcs

VMDK/VHD

Back End

SUSE

based

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INTERNET-ENABLED SELF HEALING AND PROACTIVE ASSIST

UNITY CLOUDIQ

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Dell EMC Vblock® System 540 ALL FLASH

SCALE-OUT PERFORMANCE

AT LOW LATENCY

Fast Random I/O Response Enterprise-Class Computeand Network Performance

Linear Growth

• Consistent and scalable regardlessof type of workloads or data services

• Shared in memory meta-data

• No Tuning

• M4 Blades—1.5× compute memory and cores

• Nexus 9300 with 40GE

• Nexus 9148S 16 Gbps Fibre Channel

• Up to 8x 40TB X-Bricks



• Scale to >1M IOPS at

<1ms response times

• Up to 192 Cisco UCS B-Series M4

and M3 Blade servers

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XTREMIO SCALE-OUT ARCHITECTUREConsistent Performance that Scales

Passive Active

Flash

Flash

Flash

SAN

Reads Writes

Scale-Up

VS

Controller 3

Controller 4

Scale-Out

Controller 11

Controller 12

Controller 15

Controller 16

Controller 7

Controller 8

Controller 9

Controller 10

Controller 13

Controller 14

Controller 5

Controller 6

Controller 1

Controller 2

SC

AL

E

AC

TIV

E

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XTREMIO SCALE-OUT ARCHITECTUREConsistent Performance that Scales

Passive Active

Flash

Flash

Flash

SAN

Reads Writes

Scale-Up

VS

Controller 3

Controller 4

Scale-Out

Controller 11

Controller 12

Controller 15

Controller 16

Controller 7

Controller 8

Controller 9

Controller 10

Controller 13

Controller 14

Controller 5

Controller 6

Controller 1

Controller 2

SC

AL

E

AC

TIV

E

Scale-Up

Cannot Add

Controllers—Ever

Front End is the

Bottleneck

Scale-Out

16 Active Controllers

150K Iops 2M Iops

Highest Performance

Start Small, Grow Big

VS

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Linear Growth

Effective scale-out storage

• Super-high IOPS at <1 ms response times

• Inline deduplication

• Multi-Controller Grid

Simplified compute scalability

• Up to 192 UCS M4 and M3 Blade servers

• Up to 24 UCS Blade server Chassis

SingleX-Brick cluster

40TBTwo

X-Brick cluster

80TBFour

X-Brick cluster

160TB 240TBSix

X-Brick cluster

320TBEight

X-Brick cluster

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CREATEVOLUMES

1

XTREMIO SIMPLICITY & AUTOMATION

Management Impact:

Zero Planning & Tuning

No storage skills

No GUI certifications

Provision in seconds!

Integration:

VMware Dell EMCnter

EMC ViPR, ESA, ESI, SRM

Microsoft Hyper-V

App Consoles: Oracle, SAP,

System Center, etc

REST API & CLI

CREATEINITIATORGROUPS

2MAP

VOLUMES

3

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INDUSTRY’SMOST ADVANCEDINFRASTRUCTURE

AGILE, INTELLIGENT,

AND RESILIENT

Dell EMC Vblock® System 740 with VMAX All Flash

Application CentricBreadth of Portfolio

ACI-Ready Nexus 9000 series Integrated data protection and

workload mobility

Workload-Defined Provisioning

Greater Visibilityand Efficiency

Service Level Objective-based

storage

Advanced Power and

Environmental Monitoring

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Architected for All Flash

Multi-core, Multi-

threaded

Designed For

+1M VM’s

Scalable Low

Latency IB Fabric

Massive Global

Memory

Write Folding To

Minimize Cell

Wear

Advanced Flash

Wear Analytics

Huge Write

Cache

Intelligent

Read/Write

Algorithms

Flash Boost

Technology

Pooled Cores W/

Dynamic

Allocation

Advanced QoS,

Priority Controls

Tunable FE/BE

Profiles

Industry Leading

SPC

Throughput

Supports

BI And DW Use

Cases

Enables In

Memory

Computing

EXTREMELY

LOW LATENCY

GIGANTIC

SCALE

INCREASES

DURABILITY

BLAZING

HIGH IOPS

MASSIVE

BANDWIDTH

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VMAX Multi-Dimensional ScalabilityScale-Out and Scale-Up in Appliance Like Packaging

Flash Pack

13TBu

Flash Pack

13TBu

SC

AL

E-U

P

V-BrickEng + 53TBu

Flash Pack

13TBu

Flash Pack

13TBu

Flash Pack

13TBu

Flash Pack

13TBuSTART SMALL, GET BIG

LINEAR SCALE TBs AND IOPS

EASY TO PLAN, DEPLOY, MANAGE

S C A L E - O U T

V-BrickEng + 53TBu

V-BrickEng + 53TBu

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VMAX All Flash Tech Refresh Example

VMAX 9 BAY 800TB USABLE

VMAX ALL FLASH

SINGLE BAY

*results based on Sizer configuration analysis of 9 Bay VMAX 20K

compared to VMAX 450F with similar usable capacity

40%LOWER

TCO

92%LESS

FOOTPRINT

87%LESS

ENERGY

6XMORE

PERFORMANCE

98%FEWER DRIVE

REPLACEMENTS

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Configurations To Match Any Use CaseBLEND PERFORMANCE

AND COST LOW COST ENTRY

CONFIGURATIONS

ALL FLASH NODES HYBRID NODES

MAX PERFORMANCE AND SCALE

APPS THAT DEMAND LOW LATENCY

Nodes are homogenous within an appliance,

appliances can be mixed in a cluster

Nodes are homogenous within an appliance,

appliances can be mixed in a cluster

12 16 20 24 28 6 12 16 20Cores

256GB 512GB 64GB 128GB 192GB 256GB 512GBMemory

RJ45 SFP+ RJ45 SFP+Network

SSD SSD SSD

3.8TB 3.6TB 4.8TB 6TB 10TB8TBStorage7.6TB 11.4TB 15.2TB 19TB

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Dell EMC

VxRail 120F

Dell EMC

VxRail 160F

Dell EMC

VxRail 200F

Dell EMC

VxRail 240F

Dell EMC

VxRail 280F

Per

Node

COMPUTE/

PROCESSOR

12 CoresDual Intel Xeon E5-2620

v3

2.4 GHz/15M Cache


v3

2.4 GHz/20M Cache


v3

2.6 GHz/25M Cache


v3

2.5 GHz / 30M Cache


v3

2.00 GHz/35M Cache

MEMORY/ RAM256GB

(16x16GB)

256GB or 512GB(16x16GB) or (16x32GB)

256GB or 512GB(16x16GB) or (16x32GB)

256GB or 512GB(16x16GB) or (16x32GB)

256GB or 512GB(16x16GB) or (16x32GB)

STORAGE

RAW/SSD*3.8–19TB 3.8–19TB 3.8–19TB 3.8–19TB 3.8–19TB

NETWORK

CONNECTIONDual Port 10G

SFP+ or RJ45

Dual Port 10G SFP+ or RJ45

Dual Port 10G SFP+ or RJ45

Dual Port 10G SFP+

Dual Port 10GSFP+

NODES PER CLUSTER

Minimum

Maximum

Increments

4 Nodes

64 Nodes

1 Node

VXRAIL 3.5 ALL FLASH CONFIGURATIONS

*Additional 400GB or 800GB cache SSD per node also included

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Configurations To Match Any Use Case

256GB512GB

1012

4.8TB SSD

32 GB SATADOM

Cores

Memory

Storage

Dual CPU

E5-2680v3

2.5Ghz

Dual CPU

E5-2680v3

2.5Ghz

Dual CPU

E5-2680v3

2.5Ghz

Dual CPU

E5-2650v3

2.3Ghz

1212

512/256GB 512/256GB

4.8TB SSD

32 GB SATADOM

400GB SSD

6TB HDD

32 GB SATADOM

CacheCade

FLASH HIGH PERFORMANCE

FLASH MEDIUM PERFORMANCE

HYBRID-HIGH PERFORMANCE

HYBRID- MEDIUMPERFORMANCE

CPU

400GB SSD

6TB HDD

32 GB SATADOM

CacheCade

2RU-4Node

24 Drives (6 per node)

16 NICs (4 per node) Performance Compute Nodes

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512/256GB512/256GB

1210

800GB SSD

27.2TB HDD

32GB SATADOM

CacheCade

Cores

Memory

Storage

Dual CPU

E5-2680v3

2.5Ghz

Dual CPU

E5-2650v3

2.3Ghz

Dual CPU

E5-2650v3

2.3Ghz

Dual CPU

E5-2680v3

2.5Ghz

1012

256GB 256GB

800GB SSD

27.2TB HDD

32GB SATADOM

CacheCade

28.8TB HDD

32GB SATADOM

CAPACITY CACHEDHIGH

STORAGE ONLYMIX SSD/HDD

CAPACITYMAX

CAPACITYMIX

CPU

4.8TB SSD

26.4TB HDD

32GB SATADOM

2RU-1Node

24 Drive slots

4 NICs Capacity Compute Nodes

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64GB64GB

10

28.8TB HDD

32GB SATADOM

Cores

Memory

Storage

Dual CPU

E5-2650v3

2.3Ghz

Dual CPU

E5-2650v3

2.3Ghz

Dual CPU

E5-2650v3

2.3Ghz

1010

64GB

4.8TB SSD

26.4TB HDD

32GB SATADOM

800GB SSD

27.2TB HDD

32GB SATADOM

CacheCade

STORAGE ONLYMAX HDD

CAPACITY CACHEDMEDIUM

STORAGE ONLYCACHED

CPU

2RU-1Node

24 Drive slots

4 NICs

Capacity

Storage Nodes

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