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IBM Storage FlashSystem 5000

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IBM Storage FlashSystem 5015 and 5045
Highlights offer the performance, functionality and
affordability demanded by entry
• Offers easy-to-own, easy-
to-use, easy-to-grow enterprise workloads.
flexibility
• Provides affordable, Leading-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI),
enterprise-grade real-time analytics, and blockchain demand new levels of IT
functionality and infrastructure performance and functionality for many
performance reasons, but top of the list is because by their very nature
• Enables data mobility to they produce and consume enormous amounts of data.1
support hybrid cloud
deployments Businesses of all sizes, including small businesses, remote
• Built with the rich and branch offices require a modern IT infrastructure with
enterprise data services of wide-ranging capabilities, from intelligent system
IBM Spectrum Virtualize optimization and powerful data reduction, through
• Leverages AI to optimize comprehensive security and encryption features, to cloud
data placement and architectures and ultra-low latency flash storage. These
streamline management demands can be especially challenging in environments with
smaller and mid-sized application workloads, because
• Ensures business continuity
organizations with smaller workloads quite often operate
with multi-layered data
resilience features with smaller IT budgets.

Because capital funds are at a premium, businesses need to

preserve and extend their current investments in IT
infrastructure, while upgrading outdated features. So, pay-
as-you-go strategies become especially attractive. Data
security can’t be compromised. Agility may be even more
important than ever before, so infrastructure flexibility and
scalability are crucial.

IBM Storage FlashSystem 5000 storage systems are designed

specifically to address entry enterprise workloads. These
storage solutions are focused on affordability with a wide
range of enterprise-grade features that can easily evolve as
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your business grows. And you can even choose to extend

award-winning software-defined storage functionality across
all your existing systems to optimize current IT investments
while building a leading-edge, cloud-capable business
platform.

IBM S t o r a g e F lash System 5000

IBM Storage FlashSystem 5000

IBM Storage FlashSystem 5000 storage systems are designed to provide market leader entry
level enterprise solutions within the overall FlashSystem family. IBM Storage FlashSystem 5000
technology has recently been refreshed, with a focus on significant innovation. FlashSystem
5000 offerings include IBM Storage FlashSystem 5015, designed for entry-level storage
requirements, IBM Storage FlashSystem 5045 with increased functionality and performance for
entry workloads.

The new IBM Storage FlashSystem 5000 models offer even greater affordability than before, with a
wide range of performance and feature options:

IBM Storage FlashSystem 5015 is an entry-level solution focused on affordability and ease of
deployment and operation, with powerful scale-up features. It includes many IBM Spectrum
Virtualize features and offers multiple flash and disk drive storage media and expansion options.

IBM Storage FlashSystem 5045 provides greater functionality, including powerful encryption
capabilities and data reduction pools with compression, deduplication, thin provisioning, and the
ability to cluster for scale-up and scale-out.

More than ever before, FlashSystem 5000 models are easy to buy, easy to use and easy to grow:

IBM Storage FlashSystem 5015 and FlashSystem 5045 are easy to buy because they are
simple. Just one thing to order and you get a storage solution ready to install and run.
Additionally, IBM
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Global Financing provides numerous payment options to help with system acquisition plus full
lifecycle management through to disposition.

They’re easy to deploy, with enterprise-grade capabilities such as AI-powered IBM Easy Tier
functionality that ensures your data is on the right type of storage—automatically. All IBM
storage solutions are supported by AI-enhanced IBM Storage Insights that monitors your
storage environment, so you don’t have to. It lets you know when something needs your
attention and can even recommend what to do. And when support from IBM is needed, Storage
Insights helps streamline your experience.

They’re easy to grow because you can quickly and easily add capacity without disruption. A
single FlashSystem 5015 array can scale up with 392 drives per system. The FlashSystem 5045
array can scale with 440 drives per system and up to 880 in a two-way clustered system. They work
with your applications today, and the ones you will develop tomorrow, to address workloads
using new technologies such as containers and cloud architectures.

Enhanced storage capabilities

All FlashSystem solutions leverage the proven capabilities of IBM Storage Virtualize software-
defined storage (SDS) for storage management. IBM is the number-one SDS vendor in the
industry.2 IBM Storage Virtualize enables applications to run without disruption, even when
changes are made to the storage infrastructure.

IBM Storage Virtualize has been helping enterprises improve infrastructure flexibility and data
economics for more than 15 years. When virtualized, data in a storage system becomes part of
the FlashSystem solution, and it can be managed in the same way as internal drives. Data in
external systems inherit all the FlashSystem functional richness and ease-of-use features,
including advanced replication, high-performance thin provisioning, encryption, compression,
deduplication, and Easy Tier functionality. Depending on the FlashSystem model and the
options you choose, IBM Spectrum Virtualize can deliver a wide spectrum of sophisticated
storage functionality, including:

IBM HyperSwap for nondisruptive application and data mobility between data centers

Support for host-side virtualization solutions, including VMware virtual machines, Microsoft
Hyper-V and IBM PowerVM, among others

Support for more than 500 external storage systems from a wide variety of vendors

Powerful data reduction pool technology that includes deduplication, compression, and
automated thin provisioning

Easy Tier automated tiering functionality

Safeguarded Copy for isolated and immutable copies plus software-based encryption that can
be extended across all managed systems
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IBM Storage FlashCopy and IBM Storage Remote Mirror for local and

remote replication Support for using cloud resources to complement

on-premises storage Three-site data replication capabilities

Data availability is crucially important to the business because downtime causes immediate
business impacts, including loss of customer loyalty and significant financial costs. IBM Storage
Virtualize in FlashSystem 5015 and FlashSystem 5045 can deliver “six nines” (99.9999%) data
availability. These systems are designed for high availability, with no single point of failure,
enterprise-proven control software, and nondisruptive maintenance. In addition, cloud-based
Storage Insights functionality available with FlashSystem 5045 helps detect configuration errors
to improve availability.

IBM Storage FlashSystem 5000 can operate in DRAID 1, 5, or 6 modes. A key advantage is its
ability to operate at full DRAID protection and efficiency with only three drives. This means
that cost- sensitive users can start with a smaller CapEx and add capacity as needed. IBM
DRAID 1 data can be read from all three drives, which provides a performance boost over
traditional RAID 1 approaches, as well as allowing full recovery with loss of one drive.

To further enhance data protection and system recoverability, IBM has also included three-site
replication on the FlashSystem 5045 array using a combination of FlashCopy and remote copy.
This IBM Storage Virtualize-powered three-site replication capability runs data copies at both
metro and global distances to offer a variety of recovery point and time options.

Increased efficiency

Available with the IBM Storage FlashSystem 5045 model, data reduction pools help transform the
economics of data storage. When applied to new or existing storage, they can significantly
increase usable capacity while maintaining consistent application performance. This can help
eliminate or drastically reduce costs for storage acquisition, rack space, power, and cooling, and
can extend the useful life of existing storage assets. Capabilities include:

Block deduplication that works across all the storage in a data reduction pool to minimize the
number of identical blocks

New compression technology that provides guaranteed consistent 2:1 or better reduction
performance across a wide range of application workload patterns

SCSI UNMAP support that deallocates physical storage when operating systems delete logical
storage constructs such as files in a file system
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Improved data mobility

AI-enhanced Easy Tier provides automatic migration of frequently accessed data to high-
performance flash storage or multiple tiers of disk drives, enhancing storage efficiencies.
Operating at very fine granularity, the optional Easy Tier function automatically moves data to
the optimal storage type based on input/output patterns and drive characteristics, requiring no
administrative interaction.

Rock solid data resilience

IBM Storage FlashSystem 5000 provides advanced capabilities that can help maximize data
protection, security and high availability to significantly reduce the risk of disruption and
financial losses due to user errors, malicious destruction or ransomware attacks.

To help protect sensitive data from unauthorized users, IBM Storage FlashSystem 5045 gives IT
teams the full power of storage encryption. In addition to placing encryption inside hardware
arrays, IBM Storage Virtualize includes encryption capabilities in its management layer.

IBM Storage FlashSystem 5045 with Safeguarded Copy, IBM protects your valued data form
cyberattacks with immutable and isolated copies that are hidden, non-addressable and cannot be
altered or deleted. In the event of an attack, these copies can be quickly restored to support
recovery. Customized to your particular application mix, IBM Storage FlashSystem Cyber Vault
builds on IBM Safeguarded Copy to help reduce cyber attack recovery times from days to hours. In
addition, physical isolation layers can also be created by storing sensitive copies in immutable
storage, cloud environments or off-line write-once read many (WORM) tape devices to provide
physical air-gap protection.

Also included in the FlashSystem 5000 is in-line data corruption detection. The FlashSystem
controller will gather statistics on incoming write I/Os. These statistics are sent to Storage Insights
Pro and used to spot workload anomalies, which may include potential ransomware attacks.

And with more organizations looking to adopt data resilience solutions that go beyond simple
data backup and recovery, the IBM Spectrum Protect portfolio is the perfect complement for
IBM Storage FlashSystem. It provides unified end-to-end workload protection, both on-premises
and in the cloud, including applications, VMs, file systems, SaaS workloads, AWS EC2 instances,
and containers.

For further cyber preparedness, organizations can opt for a no-cost Cyber Resiliency Assessment with
IBM. It’s a two-hour virtual assessment that evaluates current levels of preparedness, suggests data
protection solutions and creates a detailed report for improvement.

Innovative virtualization and container technologies

IBM Storage Virtualize in FlashSystem 5000 systems complements server virtualization with
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technologies such as PowerVM, Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, and the container
technologies Kubernetes and Docker.

Similar to virtualized servers, provisioning FlashSystem 5000 capacity is achieved with software
and thin provisioning and is designed to be an almost entirely automated function. Without
these technologies, provisioning servers could be slowed by the need to provision storage.

Containers enable applications to be packaged with everything needed to run identically in any
environment. They offer the versatility of virtual machines, but at a much smaller footprint and
cost. As a result, containerization is a key enabling technology for flexibly delivering workloads
to private and public cloud and DevOps. Using the IBM storage container plug-in framework,
FlashSystem 5000 systems can enable any supported storage to be used as persistent storage
in Docker and Kubernetes container environments, improving flexibility, simplifying
deployment, and lowering costs while offering enterprises the confidence of deploying stateful
containers using highly available storage with enterprise capabilities.

Greater storage visibility, insight and control

Because data is the resource that drives your business, storage systems take on even greater
importance. IBM Storage Insights and IBM Storage Insights Pro provide critical capabilities that
enhance your experience with IBM storage, including:

A single dashboard so you can see the status of all the block storage under management at a
glance

Trend information about capacity and performance so you can make better and more informed
decisions

Storage and storage network health information that helps you bring your configuration in line
with best practices

When support is needed, the ability to easily open a ticket, upload log information and view
open tickets

Detailed configuration data available to IBM specialists to help close tickets quickly

Delivered as a service from IBM Cloud at no charge, Storage Insights is quick and easy to set up
and requires no ongoing software maintenance. Storage Insights Pro is an upgrade that provides
more detailed information and additional capabilities.

Powerful added features

In addition to the many features and capabilities noted above, IBM Storage FlashSystem 5000
systems include:

Innovative management capabilities to ease storage management

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SafeGuarded Copy to reduce recovery time from a cyber attack for

FlashSystem 5045

High-availability configurations with HyperSwap for FlashSystem 5045

IBM Distributed RAID 1, designed for improved performance with small configurations

FlashCopy function and remote mirroring to create copies of data for back up and disaster
recovery
Dual clustering for FlashSystem 5045 to enable growth from smaller configurations

Options to non-disruptively upgrade in the field from FlashSystem 5015 to FlashSystem 5045,
providing investment protection with the ability to grow capacity and performance in the same
footprint

High-density expansion enclosures, which can hold up to 92 drives and 2.8 PB in a 5U form
factor

The option to add IBM Storage Virtualize for Public Cloud to enable data migration between on-
premises and public cloud storage including IBM Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and
Microsoft Azure, as well as the use of these cloud platforms for disaster recovery

Support for OpenStack Cinder, which helps automate storage provisioning and volume
management for organizations by combining the efficiency of FlashSystem 5000 with the
OpenStack Compute cloud platform

Deploy with Confidence

In addition to the performance, capacity and scalability benefits, each IBM Storage
FlashSystem 5000 deployment includes IBM FlashWatch programs. This comprehensive suite
of flash storage is designed to enhance the end-to-end ownership experience, providing the
confidence to purchase, own and upgrade IBM Storage. The FlashWatch programs include:

High availability guarantee. High-availability capability in IBM Storage Virtualize enables IBM
Storage FlashSystem 5000 arrays to deliver six-nines (99.9999%) availability. FlashSystem
5045 has IBM HyperSwap® configurations available with optional 100% high availability
guarantees 3-site replication, and replication to hybrid cloud deliver comprehensive options to
meet a wide range
of business continuity needs.3

Data reduction guarantee. This program delivers the level of data reduction your IBM Storage
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FlashSystem 5045 solution will provide. You can get the express version, which provides a 2:1
data reduction without system analysis. Or you can use one of the IBM system analysis tools
and choose the flexible option that provides up to a 5:1 data reduction with workload profiling
based on the system analysis results.

Predictive analytics & proactive management. AI-powered IBM Storage Insights uses cloud-
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based, predictive analytics to optimize storage use and delivers proactive capabilities to
streamline support at no extra cost, so you can proactively manage your environment.
IBM Flash Momentum. The same innovation that constantly creates remarkable IT infrastructure
improvements also accelerates IT infrastructure obsolescence. The IBM Flash Momentum
program allows you to refresh your controller and storage every 3 years with fullflexibility. If you
finance an IBM Storage FlashSystem over a 3-year term, just before the 3 years expire, you can
decide whether to keep it, refresh it or simply walk away. You can refresh your IBM Storage
FlashSystem for the same monthly price or less or size your system up or down to meet your
needs.

No-cost migration. When you deploy your new IBM Storage FlashSystem 5000 solution, you
have up to 90 days to migrate data from over 500 storage controllers at no extra charge.

1 “Deep Learning (deep neural network),” [Link], Accessed March 2019.

[Link]

2 “IBM Ranked # 1 in Worldwide Software-Defined Storage Software Market,” IBM Corporation, April 2017.

3 The Total Economic Impact Of IBM Spectrum Virtualize, A Forrester Total Economic Impact Study, Commissioned by IBM, April
2020

4 Subject to signing a data reduction contract. 2:1 data reduction is self-certified. Up to 5:1 data reduction with workload
profiling. IBM FlashWatch replaces all previous “Controller Upgrade” and “Peace of Mind” Programs, commencing with
purchases made on or after 11 February 2020. Program applicability varies by product. Check “FlashWatch Product Matrix”.

IBM Storage FlashSystem 5000 at a glance

Specifications IBM Storage FlashSystem 5045 with IBM Storage FlashSystem 5015 with IBM
IBM Storage Virtualize Software Storage Virtualize Software
Models IBM Storage FlashSystem 5045 IBM Storage FlashSystem 5015
Models 4680-3P2 and 4680-3P4 Models 4680-2P2 and 4680-2P4
User interface Web-based GUI Web-based GUI
Single or dual Dual (Active/Active) Dual (Active/Active)
controller
Connectivity 10 Gb iSCSI (On the motherboard) 1 Gb iSCSI (On the motherboard)
(standard)
• 16 Gb/s Fibre Channel • 16 Gb/s Fibre Channel
• 12 Gb/s SAS • 12 Gb/s SAS
Connectivity
(optional) • 25 Gb/s iSCSI • 25 Gb/s iSCSI
• 10 Gb/s iSCSI • 10 Gb/s iSCSI
Cache per control 32GB or 64GB 32 GB or 64 GB
enclosure

Max IOPs 1.2M IOPs 400K IOPs

Min latency Under 70μs Under 70μs
Max bandwidth 12GB/s 8GB/s
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Specifications IBM Storage FlashSystem 5045 with IBM Storage FlashSystem 5015 with IBM
IBM Storage Virtualize Software Storage Virtualize Software
Models IBM Storage FlashSystem 50454680- IBM Storage FlashSystem 5015
3P2 and 4680-3P4 4680-2P2 and 4680-2P4
Drives supported Small form-factor 2.5-inch disk drives: Small form-factor 2.5-inch disk drives:
• 2.4 TB @10k rpm • 2.4 TB @ 10k rpm
Large form-factor 3.5-inch disk drives: Large form-factor 3.5-inch disk drives:
• 8 TB, 12 TB, 16 TB, 20 TB @ 7.2k rpm • 8 TB, 12 TB, 16 TB,
2.5-inch flash drives: 20 TB @ 7.2k rpm
• 1.92 TB, 3.84 TB, 7.68 TB, 15.36 TB and 2.5-inch flash
30.72 TB drives:
• 1.92 TB, 3.84 TB, 7.68 TB, 15.36 TB and
30.72 TB

Maximum drives Maximum of 440 drives per system and Maximum of 392 drives per system:
supported 880 drives in two-way clusters: • Small form-factor enclosure: 24 x 2.5-inch
• Small form-factor enclosure: 24 x 2.5- drives
inch drives • Large form-factor enclosure: 12 x 3.5-inch
• Large form-factor enclosure: 12 x 3.5- drives
inch drives • High-density expansion enclosure: 92 x
• High-density expansion enclosure: 92 x 3.5-inch drives
3.5-inch drives
Maximum expansion • Up to 6 standard expansion • Up to 10 standard expansion enclosures
enclosure capacity enclosures per controller per controller
• Up to 2 high-density expansion • Up to 4 high-density expansion
enclosures per controller enclosures per controller
RAID levels Distributed RAID 1, 5 and 6 Distributed RAID 1, 5 and 6
Fans and power Fully redundant, hot-swappable Fully redundant, hot-swappable
supplies
Rack support Standard 19-inch Standard 19-inch
Advanced functions • Virtualization of internal storage • Virtualization of internal storage
included with each • Data reduction pools with thin
system • SafeGuarded Copy
• Data reduction pools with thin provisioning and UNMAP
provisioning, UNMAP, compression and • One-way data migration
deduplication • Easy Tier
• One-way data migration • FlashCopy
• Dual-system clustering • Remote mirroring
• Encryption
• Remote mirroring
• Easy Tier
• FlashCopy
Additional available • •
advanced functions
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Specifications IBM Storage FlashSystem 5045 with IBM IBM Storage FlashSystem 5015 with IBM
Storage Virtualize Software Storage Virtualize Software
Models IBM Storage FlashSystem 5045 IBM Storage FlashSystem 5015
4680-3P2 and 4680-3P4 4680-2P2 and 4680-2P4
Size 8.7 cm (3.4 in.) H x 48.3 cm (19.0 in.) W x 8.7 cm (3.4 in.) H x 48.3 cm (19.0 in.) W x
55.6 cm (21.9 in.) D 55.6 cm (21.9 in.) D

Approximate weight: Approximate weight:

– Large form-factor control enclosure: – Large form-factor control enclosure:

• Empty: 18.0 kg (39.6 lb) • Empty: 18.0 kg (39.6 lb)
• Fully configured: 28.3 kg (62.2 lb) • Fully configured: 28.3 kg (62.2 lb)
– Large form-factor expansion – Large form-factor expansion enclosure:
enclosure: • Empty: 16.4 kg (36.1 lb)
• Empty: 16.4 kg (36.1 lb) • Fully configured: 26.7 kg (58.8 lb)
• Fully configured: 26.7 kg (58.8 lb) – Small form-factor control enclosure:
– Small form-factor control enclosure: • Empty: 19.0 kg (41.8 lb)
• Empty: 19.0 kg (41.8 lb) • Fully configured: 27.3 kg (60.0 lb)
• Fully configured: 27.3 kg (60.0 lb) – Small form-factor expansion enclosure:
– Small form-factor expansion • Empty: 16.7 kg (36.7 lb)
enclosure: • Fully configured: 25.0 kg (55.2 lb)
• Empty: 16.7 kg (36.7 lb)
• Fully configured: 25.0 kg (55.2 lb)

Operating Air temperature: Air temperature:

environment
– Operating: 10°C – 35°C (50°F – 95°F) at – Operating: 10°C – 35°C (50°F – 95°F) at
30.5 m below to 3,000 m above sea level (100 30.5 m below to 3,000 m above sea level
ft below to 9,840 ft above) (100 ft below to 9,840 ft above)

– Non-operating: -10°C – 50°C (14°F – 125°F) – Non-operating: -10°C – 50°C (14°F –

125°F)
Relative humidity:
Relative humidity:
– Operating: 20% – 85%
– Operating: 20% – 85%
– Non-operating: 8% – 80%
– Non-operating: 8% – 80%

Warranty Hardware: Hardware:

– 1-year limited warranty – 1-year limited warranty

– • 9 x 5 on-site limited support – • 9 x 5 on-site limited support
– • Upgradeable to IBM Storage Expert – • Upgradeable to IBM Storage Expert
Care: Care:
– ⚬ IBM Storage Expert Care Basic: – ⚬ IBM Storage Expert Care Basic:
– ▪ Extended 9 x 5 on-site hardware – ▪ Extended 9 x 5 on-site hardware
support for the duration of the contract support for the duration of the contract
– ▪ License machine code subscription and – ▪ License machine code subscription
support for the duration of the contract and support for the duration of the
– ▪ Guidance on installation, usage and contract
configuration – ▪ Guidance on installation, usage and
– ▪ Automated ticket management and configuration
alerting – ▪ Automated ticket management and
– ⚬ IBM Storage Expert Care Advanced: alerting
– ▪ Extended 24 x 7 on-site hardware – ⚬ IBM Storage Expert Care Advanced:
support for the duration of the contract – ▪ Extended 24 x 7 on-site hardware
– ▪ License machine code subscription and support for the duration of the contract
support for the duration of the contract – ▪ License machine code subscription
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– ▪ Guidance on installation, usage and and support for the duration of the
configuration contract
– ▪ Automated ticket management and – ▪ Guidance on installation, usage and
alerting configuration
– ▪ Predictive issue resolution Software – ▪ Automated ticket management and
Warranty: alerting
– IBM Spectrum Virtualize licensed machine – ▪ Predictive issue resolution Software
code governed by the IBM Agreement for Warranty:
Machine Code – IBM Spectrum Virtualize licensed machine
– • Included with the machine's warranty code governed by the IBM Agreement for
– • Extended through hardware support via Machine Code
IBM Storage Expert Care – • Included with the machine's warranty
– • Extended through hardware support
via IBM Storage Expert Care
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Specifications IBM Storage FlashSystem 5045 with IBM Storage FlashSystem 5015 with IBM
IBM Storage Virtualize Software Storage Virtualize Software
Models IBM Storage FlashSystem 5045 IBM Storage FlashSystem 5015
4680-3P2 and 4680-3P4 4680-2P2 and 4680-2P4
Operating For a list of currently supported For a list of currently supported servers,
environment servers, operating systems, host bus operating systems, host bus adapters,
adapters, clustering applications, and clustering applications, and SAN switches
SAN switches and directors, refer to the and directors, refer to the IBM System
IBM System Storage Interoperation Storage Interoperation Center at:
Center at: [Link]/systems/support/storage/config/ss
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For a list of high-quality solutions with IBM partner For a list of high-quality solutions with IBM partner ISVs,
ISVs, including access to solution briefs and white including access to solution briefs and white papers,
ISV solutions papers, contact your IBM representative or contact your IBM representative or Business Partner.
Business Partner.
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