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Lab Validation Report NetApp FlexPod Select for High-performance Oracle RAC

Integrated Infrastructure for High-performance Latency-sensitive Databases

By Tony Palmer, Senior Lab Analyst

January 2016 © 2016 by The Enterprise Strategy Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Lab Validation: NetApp FlexPod Select for High-performance Oracle RAC 2

© 2016 by The Enterprise Strategy Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Contents

Introduction .................................................................................................................................................. 3 Background ............................................................................................................................................................... 3 NetApp FlexPod Select ............................................................................................................................................. 4 Database Considerations .......................................................................................................................................... 5

ESG Lab Validation ........................................................................................................................................ 6 Performance – IOPS, Latency, and Bandwidth ......................................................................................................... 6 Oracle Database Performance .................................................................................................................................. 9 Reliability, Availability, Serviceability, and Economics ........................................................................................... 12

ESG Lab Validation Highlights ..................................................................................................................... 14

Issues to Consider ....................................................................................................................................... 14

The Bigger Truth ......................................................................................................................................... 15

Appendix ..................................................................................................................................................... 16

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The goal of ESG Lab reports is to educate IT professionals about data center technology products for companies of all types and sizes. ESG Lab reports are not meant to replace the evaluation process that should be conducted before making purchasing decisions, but rather to provide insight into these emerging technologies. Our objective is to go over some of the more valuable feature/functions of products, show how they can be used to solve real customer problems and identify any areas needing improvement. ESG Lab's expert third-party perspective is based on our own hands-on testing as well as on interviews with customers who use these products in production environments. This ESG Lab report was sponsored by NetApp.



Introduction

This ESG Lab Report documents validation of the real world performance, economics, ease of management, and scalability of the NetApp FlexPod Select platform with NetApp EF560 flash arrays in high-performance Oracle RAC environments. A combination of hands on testing by ESG Lab and audited in-house performance testing executed by NetApp were used to create this report.

Background

IT managers, line-of-business stakeholders and senior executives continue to look for ways to simplify operations, increase resource utilization, and improve TCO in IT. Nearly one-third of respondents to an ESG survey1 said service and support (32%) and/or total cost of ownership (TCO) measurements (30%) are among the most important criteria when selecting a vendor or solution. Since the financial crisis of 2008-2009, ESG has seen a steady increase in the usage of ROI and TCO tools for the purposes of IT investment validation2. The fact that nearly one-third of organizations identify TCO as an important storage selection criterion demonstrates a willingness to invest in new solutions in order to increase efficiency and cost savings in the long term. Simplicity also resonates with IT decision makers when it comes to storage, for both initial implementation (28%) and ongoing management (26%).

Figure 1. Database Environment and Supporting Infrastructure Challenges

Source: Enterprise Strategy Group, 2015.

Integrated computing platforms (ICPs) are platforms in which servers, storage, network connectivity, and (in some cases) software are combined in a single solution. Thanks to the elimination of countless hours of designing, configuring, and testing servers, networks, and storage subsystems, ICPs continue to gain mindshare and market traction, as these platforms often have a direct impact on the more traditional approach to storage architecture looking at both TCO and ease of implementation and management.

According to ESG research, 73% of large midmarket (500 to 999 employees) and enterprise (1,000 or more employees) organizations are consolidating databases to some extent, which is an indicator that these organizations are striving to increase efficiency. When asked about challenges with their database environments

1 Source: ESG Research Report, 2015 Data Storage Market Trends, October 2015. 2 Source: ESG Research Report, 2016 IT Spending Intentions Survey, January 2016.

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and supporting infrastructures, organizations indicated that managing data growth and database size, meeting database performance requirements, and deploying new database technologies and applications were specific challenges. When delving deeper to explore the challenges just within managing database size and growth, these same organizations cited performance degradation (42%), bottlenecks from data replication processes (36%), and the inability to complete maintenance tasks within service windows (27%) as specific difficulties.3 These responses indicate that performance as well as reliability, availability, and serviceability are all important features for current and future database environments and the supporting IT infrastructure.

NetApp FlexPod Select

The NetApp FlexPod Select system is an integrated infrastructure platform that combines best-of-breed technologies from NetApp and Cisco, into a powerful converged platform for enterprise applications. NetApp works closely with Oracle to support the most demanding transactional and response-time-sensitive databases required by today’s businesses. Like all FlexPod Systems, the FlexPod Select for High-performance Oracle RAC are comprised of compute—database, application, and management servers from Cisco, network—three-layer network and SAN technologies from Cisco, and storage—NetApp EF-Series all-flash storage systems.

Figure 2. NetApp FlexPod Select

FlexPod Select for High-Performance Oracle RAC is designed to encompass all the benefits of FlexPod Select—including validated, preconfigured, pretested configurations; simplified management; high availability and resiliency; improved efficiency; and easy scaling—while providing the following business benefits for applications running on Oracle Database:

Over 2 million IOPS (for 100% read workloads) Consistent microsecond level response time The ability to scale the infrastructure granularly to fit any workload A balanced configuration across networking, servers, and storage Non-disruptive maintenance and upgrades: addition or replacement of Oracle RAC blades in minutes

3 Source: ESG Research Report, Enterprise Database Trends in a Big Data World, July 2014.

http://www.esg-global.com/research-reports/enterprise-database-trends-in-a-big-data-world/



Individually and in concert, the components of the FlexPod solution are designed to keep applications available. Integrated high-availability and disaster recovery capabilities enable customers to achieve “always on” database performance. The EF-Series all-flash arrays deliver 99.999% availability; by following best practices NetApp customers have achieved 99.99969% availability. NetApp’s secure multi-tenancy is industry-certified to keep applications securely isolated in a shared infrastructure.

Database Considerations

IT advances in cloud, virtualization, big data, collaboration, mobile, social media/business, sensor technologies, robotics, and embedded technologies are altering the applications that enterprises are implementing. Singularly, any of these technologies carries enough force to spawn a wave of IT disruption, but the fact that they are all advancing simultaneously is causing massive upheaval in both the supply and demand side of IT. This true revolution is certainly not limited to the functions, user experience, and reach of enterprise applications. It also reaches to the related development, deployment, and management of the infrastructures, databases, and middleware that underlie enterprise applications.

Despite all the upheaval, data remains the life blood that oxygenates the entire body of enterprise IT. Many organizations depend on Oracle databases to capture, manage, and distribute data for organizations, including both online transaction processing (OLTP) and big data analytics applications.

Response time is critical for OLTP databases because this is the delay that an application will experience (and pass on to users) when a storage system is stressed to its limits. Traditionally, the generally accepted response time for online transactional applications has been measured in milliseconds. Today, this level of response time is often no longer acceptable and response times measured in microseconds are the new target. An example where ESG has seen this is with redo log writes for highly write intensive databases. For many of these applications the only solution is an all solid-state system, like the NetApp EF560. In addition to ultra-low latency and high performance, reliability, availability, and serviceability are critical because increasing numbers of these applications are business- or even mission-critical.

The deployment of a NetApp FlexPod Select for High-performance Oracle RAC can reduce or eliminate performance bottlenecks within the infrastructure allowing for increased database consolidation. Consolidation reduces infrastructure costs like hardware, software, power, and cooling. In the case of database software licenses the savings can be substantial.



ESG Lab Validation

ESG Lab performed hands-on evaluation and testing of the NetApp FlexPod Select for High-performance Oracle RAC at NetApp facilities in Sunnyvale, California and Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Testing was designed to demonstrate the performance and low latency of the NetApp FlexPod Select as infrastructure for Oracle databases and applications using industry-standard tools and methodologies. Also of interest were reliability, availability, and serviceability.

Performance – IOPS, Latency, and Bandwidth

ESG Lab validated the performance of the NetApp FlexPod Select for High-performance Oracle RAC running an eight-node Real Application Clusters (RAC) configuration of an Oracle Database 12c R1 running Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.6 on Cisco UCS B200M3 compute blades. The FlexPod Select was configured with four NetApp EF560 storage systems, each containing 24 400GB SSDs. Connectivity was provided by Cisco UCS fabric interconnect switches and Cisco Nexus unified fabric switches.

Figure 3. The ESG Lab Test Bed

All performance testing was completed on a simulated real-world populated database. Testing focused on measuring the throughput and latency of Oracle SQL-driven random I/O. ESG Lab utilized the widely adopted and publicly available Silly Little Oracle Benchmark kit (SLOB2) version 2.3 to efficiently generate realistic system-wide, random, single block, application-independent SQL queries. The SLOB2 benchmark exercised all components of the FlexPod Select for High-performance Oracle RAC by stressing the physical I/O layer of Oracle through SGA-buffered random I/O without being limited to a specific load-generating application.

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First, ESG Lab measured the IOPS and average latency observed by the database during testing with 100% random 8K reads. The load on the database was increased incrementally until the IOPS exceeded 2,000,000. While delivering more than 2,000,000 IOPS the application latency was measured at just 700 microseconds. This strongly suggests that the storage systems are capable of delivering higher levels of IOPS than observed in these tests.

Figure 4. OLTP Performance with 100% 8KB Random Reads

ESG Lab compared these results to tests previously performed by NetApp on a FlexPod Select for High-performance Oracle RAC using a previous generation NetApp EF550 all-flash array and found that the NetApp EF560 nearly doubled performance while reducing response time by more than 20%. The results are shown in Figure 4.

Next, ESG Lab looked at the performance in terms of throughput. As seen in Figure 5, the FlexPod Select for High-performance Oracle RAC Powered by NetApp EF560 all-flash storage systems was able to sustain 15.8GB/second of throughput. It’s important to note that this throughput was achieved while performing 100% random 8KB reads. When executing large block, sequential I/O—as seen in data warehouse or big data analytics environments—users should expect to see much higher throughput.

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Detailed results are presented in Table 1.

Table 1. NetApp FlexPod Select for High-performance Oracle RAC IOPS and Throughput

NetApp FlexPod Select Data Protection IOPS

Response Time (µs)

Throughput (GB/sec)

EF550 IOPS RAID 10 1,061,092 900 8.1

EF560 IOPS RAID 10 2,076,367 700 15.8

What the Numbers Mean

IOPS is a measure of a storage system’s ability to process transactional operations. Throughput is a measure of the available bandwidth provided by the storage system.

ESG Lab’s testing did not attempt to determine the maximum IOPS that the storage system could sustain but was designed to determine a realistic performance number.

The NetApp FlexPod Select for High-performance Oracle RAC with the NetApp EF560 delivered 96% higher IOPS performance than the previous generation EF550 with a 20% reduction in response times. ESG Lab confirmed that the EF560 was able to provide over 2 million small block random IOPS and throughput of 15.8 GB/sec for large block sequential reads. This was accomplished with an average host response time of 700 microseconds with just 96 SSDs, demonstrating the suitability of the FlexPod Select for High-performance Oracle RAC for the most demanding high-speed transactional database environments.

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Why This Matters

Modern performance-oriented database workloads require high throughput, low latencies, and flexible scalability to keep up with today’s demands for data. Response time is a crucial component of database performance, affecting user experience, productivity, decision-making, and the time to execute business-critical jobs; reducing response time can mean hundreds of thousands of dollars of revenue to an organization. Designing a database with the ability to scale and deliver high performance for mixed workloads like OLTP is a challenge for even the most skilled database architects.

ESG Lab validated that a single NetApp FlexPod Select for High-performance Oracle RAC configuration performed over two million IOPS with a 700 microsecond average response time for OLTP workloads. The system also delivered close to 16GB/sec of throughput during the same tests. Designing a database system to achieve these high levels of performance would be difficult for any sized organization, but FlexPod Select made the configuration and delivery process quick and easy.

These results validate that the NetApp FlexPod Select for High-performance Oracle RAC is well suited for high-transaction and high-throughput business-critical database environments, as well as consolidated enterprise environments with highly virtualized servers running demanding mixed-workload and high-bandwidth applications like analytics.

Oracle Database Performance

Raw measurements of maximum IOPS and throughput are basic indicators of a platform’s ability to perform, but these measurements are often hard to directly translate into a more real-world experience. To provide a different perspective of the capability of the NetApp FlexPod Select for High-performance Oracle RAC, ESG Lab used a transactional workload with a mixture of reads and writes to measure the performance of the EF-Series in a more real-world environment.

ESG Lab Testing

The SLOB2 benchmark was again used to exercise all components of the NetApp FlexPod Select for High-performance Oracle RAC to evaluate performance in a typical OLTP environment generating an 80% read/20% write mix of transactions. Figure 6 shows the results of the testing comparing the performance of the NetApp FlexPod Select for High-performance Oracle RAC with NetApp EF560 all-flash systems to previously conducted tests run against NetApp FlexPod Select for High-performance Oracle RAC with NetApp EF550 all-flash systems.



Figure 6. NetApp EF560 Performance–Oracle Database–8KB I/O 80% Read/20% Write

As seen in the previous 100% read tests, the NetApp FlexPod Select for High-performance Oracle RAC with NetApp EF560 all-flash systems achieved more than 1,300,000 IOPS at an average overall latency of 1,040 microseconds, more than double the performance of a similarly configured system using NetApp EF550 storage systems. Detailed results are shown in Table 2.

Table 2. NetApp FlexPod Select IOPS and Latency with 80% Reads and 20% Writes

NetApp FlexPod Select Total IOPS Read IOPS Write IOPS

Average Response Time (µs)

NetApp EF550 619,680 495,744 123,936 900

NetApp EF560 1,300,909 1,040.727 260,182 1,040


For small-block, write-heavy real-world applications like OLTP, ESG Lab tests demonstrated that the NetApp FlexPod Select for High-performance Oracle RAC with the NetApp EF560 all-flash storage system was able to service more than 1,300,000 IOPS with 1,040 µs average response time, a significant improvement over NetApp FlexPod Select systems with the previous generation NetApp EF550.

These results indicate that the NetApp FlexPod Select for High-performance Oracle RAC with the NetApp EF560 all-flash storage system can easily support real-world Oracle database environments with a mix of read and write operations, supporting a demanding amount of transactions while sustaining extremely low response times, which translates to user responsiveness and increased productivity.

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Why This Matters

ESG research indicates that increased use of server virtualization and business intelligence/data analytics initiatives are among the most-cited IT priorities for the organizations surveyed by ESG.4 In addition, IT organizations indicated that performance degradation is among the most important challenges they face with respect to managing database size and growth.5 The responsiveness of transactional databases and business-critical applications has a direct impact on productivity and revenue. Organizations are only willing to consolidate workloads if they can have a reasonable assurance that performance will not suffer. Scalable, consistent storage performance is essential to ensuring the success of a consolidation effort.

ESG Lab confirmed that a NetApp FlexPod Select for High-performance Oracle RAC was able to support more than 1,300,000 8KB 80%read/20% write IOPS for a demanding online transaction processing (OLTP) workload and sustain 1,040 µs average response times—a substantial improvement over the NetApp FlexPod Select with the previous generation NetApp EF550, offering solid-state device performance to provide predictably consistent scalability with extremely low response times where it's needed. ESG Lab testing has validated that the efficiency and performance of the NetApp FlexPod Select for High-performance Oracle RAC architecture can be used to confidently accelerate the performance of real-world applications with remarkably low response times.

4 Source: ESG Research Report, 2015 IT Spending Intentions Survey, February 2015. 5 Source: ESG Research Report, Enterprise Database Trends in a Big Data World, July 2014.

http://www.esg-global.com/research-reports/2015-it-spending-intentions-survey/

http://www.esg-global.com/research-reports/enterprise-database-trends-in-a-big-data-world/



Reliability, Availability, Serviceability, and Economics

The NetApp FlexPod data center platform is designed to deliver key products including Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS) servers, Cisco Nexus networking, and storage from NetApp, all configured and validated according to industry best practices. FlexPod can be tailored to meet the needs of a variety of applications and use cases leveraging the wide array of choices from the product portfolios of Cisco and NetApp to build the appropriate platform for Oracle databases. Features and benefits provided by the NetApp FlexPod Select for High-performance Oracle RAC include the NetApp Verified Architecture (NVA) program, which offers customers a validated architecture for NetApp solutions. NVAs provide customers with NetApp solution architecture that is pre-defined, thoroughly tested, minimizes customer deployment effort and risk, while accelerating customer time to market.

In addition to the performance testing documented in this report, ESG Lab looked at the economics, reliability, availability, and serviceability of the NetApp FlexPod Select for High-performance Oracle RAC with NetApp EF560 all-flash storage.

Put simply, the economics of the current generation NetApp FlexPod Select for High-performance Oracle RAC have been increased dramatically with the introduction of the NetApp EF560 all-flash storage systems. Double the performance in the same footprint means that more databases and users can be consolidated into a smaller footprint, with lower capital and operational expenditures.

Individually and in concert, the components of the FlexPod solution work to keep applications available. Integrated high-availability and disaster recovery capabilities enable organizations to achieve “always-on” database availability. The EF-Series all-flash arrays are designed to deliver 99.999% availability; but by following best practices NetApp customers have achieved 99.99969% availability. Detailed data based on NetApp in-house tracking of in-service reliability of the EF-series storage systems is provided in Table 3.

Table 3. NetApp EF-Series Reliability Data

NetApp EF-Series Field Population > 6200 units

Operational Lifetime > 14,000,000 hours

Storage Availability 99.99969%


99.99969% availability is equivalent to 97.8 seconds of downtime per year, 8.15 seconds of downtime per month, or 2.04 seconds of downtime per week.

Demonstrating greater than five-nine availability means that NetApp FlexPod Select for High-performance Oracle RAC with EF storage systems can be virtually always available to the user.



Why This Matters

Managing data growth, data center consolidation, and database deployments were all called out by organizations as important IT priorities in ESG research.6 As storage environments grow in size and complexity, so too does the impact of data outages. Access to tier-1 data and applications is critical to business operations and an outage of even an hour would have adverse business impacts. In addition, organizations are continuing to call out Return on investment, business process improvement, and reduction in operational expenditures as important justifications for IT investments.7

ESG Lab confirmed that NetApp FlexPod Select for High-performance Oracle RAC with NetApp EF560 all-flash storage provides significant increases in performance per rack unit over the NetApp FlexPod Select with the previous generation NetApp EF550 all-flash storage systems. This allows administrators to the leverage the flexibility of the FlexPod Select in a smaller footprint, consuming less power and cooling. ESG Lab also confirmed that EF-series arrays used in the NetApp FlexPod Select for High-performance Oracle RAC achieved an outstanding record of 99.99969% uptime—the equivalent of 97.8 seconds of downtime per year. This impressive record demonstrates the EF-Series’ suitability as storage for the most demanding business- and mission-critical database environments.

6 Source: ESG Research Report, 2015 IT Spending Intentions Survey, February 2015. 7 Ibid.

http://www.esg-global.com/research-reports/2015-it-spending-intentions-survey/



ESG Lab Validation Highlights

ESG Lab observed a 96% improvement in performance with a reduction in response time in the NetApp FlexPod Select for High-performance Oracle RAC as compared to a configuration using the previous generation EF550.

ESG Lab confirmed that the NetApp FlexPod Select for High-performance Oracle RAC with 96 400GB SSDs was able to sustain 2.067 million 8KB IOPS and 15.8 GB/sec of throughput.

The NetApp FlexPod Select for High-performance Oracle RAC was able to maintain average response times of .7ms at more than 1.3 million 8KB OLTP IOPS with real-world Oracle database workloads.

ESG Lab validated that the NetApp FlexPod Select for High-performance Oracle RAC can provide double the performance of previous generation configurations, in the same footprint.

The NetApp EF-Series arrays used in the NetApp FlexPod Select for High-performance Oracle RAC demonstrated a solid 99.99969% record with more than 14,000,000 hours in the field, averaging less than 97.8 seconds of downtime per year.

Issues to Consider

Generally accepted best practices and predominantly default Oracle and NetApp FlexPod settings were used during the design of this test. Given that the goal of this test was not to generate a the largest numbers possible, ESG Lab is confident that the results presented in this report meet the objective of estimating scalability of performance and responsiveness as a growing number of Oracle databases share the converged infrastructure of the NetApp FlexPod Select for High-performance Oracle RAC.

The test results/data presented in this document are based on benchmarks deployed in a controlled environment. Due to the many variables in each production data center environment, it is still important to perform capacity planning and testing in your own environment to validate a configuration.



The Bigger Truth

Performance and reliability are absolutely critical to today’s high performance databases. Databases are constantly demanding higher levels of throughput, lower response times, and high levels of data protection, all while continuing to give the core business a competitive edge. ESG research shows that nearly half of all organizations surveyed (49%) are leveraging solid state storage in some form today, with 57% citing improved application performance as a benefit of leveraging solid state.8

The NetApp FlexPod Select for High-performance Oracle RAC is designed to make it simpler and quicker for an organization to deploy a high performance database. The system is designed for fast and easy ordering using the highest performing and most reliable components from Cisco and NetApp. In addition to incorporating fast servers, switches, and storage, the system is pre-designed, pre-configured, pre-installed, pre-tuned, and pre-tested by expert database architects at NetApp before delivery to the datacenter floor, ready for deployment—lowering TCO by saving the customer months of internal work and increasing ROI by speeding the time to production.

ESG Lab validated the high performance capabilities of a NetApp FlexPod Select for High-performance Oracle RAC system using an Oracle Database 12c R1 in a RAC configuration. The system performed over two million random physical IOPS driven by Oracle OLTP-like SQL queries at an impressively low 700 microseconds average response time, and delivered close to 16GB/sec of throughput. ESG Lab also validated the reliability of the solution by auditing NetApp in-house reliability surveys which showed that by following best practices NetApp customers have achieved 99.99969% availability with the EF560 all-flash storage systems used in the NetApp FlexPod Select for High-performance Oracle RAC. This blend of extremely high performance and high reliability perfectly suits the needs of today’s most demanding high performance databases.

ESG Lab is pleased to report that the NetApp FlexPod Select for High-performance Oracle RAC is clearly well suited to support a mix of demanding real-world business applications running in a performance-critical Oracle database infrastructure. By offering the NetApp FlexPod Select for High-performance Oracle RAC, NetApp has taken an important next step in integrated computing. NetApp is offering a significant addition to the best-of-breed, generalized platforms of FlexPod Express and FlexPod Datacenter. NetApp is also helping to solve a complex and costly business problem for organizations. If your organization is preparing to invest the significant time, effort, and capital required to design, test, tune, and troubleshoot a high performance database, ESG Lab strongly suggests a close look at NetApp FlexPod Select for High-performance Oracle RAC.

8 Source: ESG Research Report, 2015 Data Storage Market Trends, October 2015.

http://www.esg-global.com/research-reports/2015-data-storage-market-trends/



Appendix

Table 4. Test Bed Overview

NetApp FlexPod Select

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NetApp EF560 – Four arrays 96x 400GB SSD total 8x 16GFC host interface cards Firmware: 8.20.08.00

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Cisco UCS 510B Chassis Quantity: 2 Firmware: 2.2(5b)

Cisco UCS fabric interconnect 6248 Quantity: 2

Cisco B200M3 compute blade Quantity: 4 Two Intel Xeon E5-2620 v2 processors, 64GB RAM

Cisco B200M3 compute blade Quantity: 4 Two Intel Xeon E5-2650 v2 processors, 128GB RAM

Cisco UCS 1240 virtual interface card (VIC) Quantity: 8

Cisco UCS 2204 FEX Quantity: 4

Network

Cisco Nexus 5548UP switch Quantity: 2

Cisco 8Gb Fibre Channel SFP (DS-SFP-FC8G-SW) Quantity: 32

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Cisco Nexus NX-OS 6.0(2)N1(2a)

Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) with UEK 6.6

Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) 12.1.0.2.0

SLOB Tool 2.3

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