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During our first cross Canada tour for the Windows Server 2012 IT Camp, earlier this year and the current #CANITPRO Windows Server Camp v2, Anthony Bartolo, Mitch Garvis and Myself have been talking with IT pros to see what they needed in terms of learning resources.
They mostly told us that since they are busy keeping the “lights on” in their enterprises and that the time and budgets to get training was getting smaller and smaller. They told us that they wanted a quick recipe book that would get them started. Don’t worry, nothing will burn or catch on fire with our recipes…. Well, it shouldn’t… I think…
With that in mind we put together a series of step-by-step high level guides to allow IT pros to get acquainted with Windows Server 2012 at a high level. Those post are high level and a great way to start learning about the new or improved functionality in Windows Server 2012.
We currently have the following content, with more being added every week. So bookmark the CANITPRO blog and come back often.
This is third one in this series and it will cover the following:
Details of the import virtual machines process in Hyper-v
Virtual Machines Dynamic memory
The import virtual machines process in Hyper-v
Importing a virtual machine from one physical host to another can expose file incompatibilities and other unforeseen complications. Administrators often think of a virtual machine as a single, stand-alone entity that they can move around to address their operational needs. In reality, a virtual machine consists of several parts:
Virtual hard disks, stored as files in the physical storage.
Virtual machine snapshots, stored as a special type of virtual hard disk file.
The saved state of the different, host-specific devices.
The memory file, or snapshot, for the virtual machine.
The virtual machine configuration file, which organizes the preceding components and arranges them into a working virtual machine.
Each virtual machine and each snapshot that is associated with it use unique identifiers. Additionally, virtual machines store and use some host-specific information, such as the path that identifies the location for virtual hard disk files. When Hyper‑V starts a virtual machine, it undergoes a series of validation checks before being started. Problems such as hardware differences that might exist when a virtual machine is imported to another host can cause these validation checks to fail. That, in turn, prevents the virtual machine from starting.
Windows Server 2012 includes an Import wizard that helps you quickly and reliably import virtual machines from one server to another.
The Import Wizard for virtualization:
Detects and fixes problems.
Hyper‑V in Windows Server 2012 introduces a new Import Wizard that is designed to detect and fix more than 40 different types of incompatibilities. You don’t have to worry ahead of time about the configuration that’s associated with physical hardware, such as memory, virtual switches, and virtual processors. The Import Wizard guides you through the steps to resolve incompatibilities when you import the virtual machine to the new host.
Doesn’t require the virtual machine to be exported.
You no longer need to export a virtual machine to be able to import it. You can simply copy a virtual machine and its associated files to the new host and then use the Import Wizard to specify the location of the files. This “registers” the virtual machine with Hyper‑V and makes it available for use.
The flowchart shows the Import Wizard process.
When you import a virtual machine, the wizard does the following:
Creates a copy of the virtual machine configuration file. This is created as a precaution in case an unexpected restart occurs on the host, such as from a power outage.
Validates hardware. Information in the virtual machine configuration file is compared to hardware on the new host.
Compiles a list of errors. This list identifies what needs to be reconfigured and determines which pages appear next in the wizard.
Displays the relevant pages, one category at a time. The wizard identifies incompatibilities to help you reconfigure the virtual machine so it’s compatible with the new host.
Removes the copy of the configuration file. After the wizard does this, the virtual machine is ready to start.
The new Import Wizard is a simpler, better way to import or copy virtual machines. The wizard detects and fixes potential problems, such as hardware or file differences that might exist when a virtual machine is imported to another host.
As an added safety feature, the wizard creates a temporary copy of a virtual machine configuration file in case an unexpected restart occurs on the host, such as from a power outage. The Windows PowerShell cmdlets for importing virtual machines let you automate the process.
Virtual Machines Dynamic memory and automatic start-up actions
In Windows Server 2012, Fast-growing organizations whose workloads are rapidly expanding often need to add more virtual machines to their host processors. These organizations want to optimize the number of virtual machines that they can place on a host server to minimize the number of expensive host servers that they need. With the Hyper-V Dynamic Memory improvements in Windows Server 2012 , IT administrators can now allocate virtual machine memory resources more efficiently and dramatically increase virtual machine consolidation ratios.
Dynamic Memory improvements in Windows Server 2012 include support for higher virtual machine consolidation with minimum memory and Hyper-V smart paging.
Minimum memory lets Hyper‑V reclaim the unused memory from virtual machines. This can result in increased virtual machine consolidation numbers, especially in VDI environments.
Although minimum memory increases virtual machine consolidation numbers, it also brings a challenge. If a virtual machine has a smaller amount of memory than its startup memory and it’s restarted, Hyper‑V needs additional memory to restart the machine. Due to host memory pressure or the states of the virtual machines, Hyper‑V may not always have additional memory available. This can cause sporadic virtual machine restart failures in customer environments. In Windows Server 2012, Hyper-V smart paging is used to bridge the memory gap between minimum and startup memory and allow virtual machines to restart reliably.
Hyper-V smart paging allows virtual machines to start reliably when the minimum memory setting has indirectly led to an insufficient amount of available physical memory during restart.
Hyper-V smart paging
As in the earlier version of Dynamic Memory, you can configure minimum memory for your virtual machines and Hyper‑V continues to help ensure that this amount is assigned to running virtual machines. To provide a reliable restart experience for the virtual machines configured with less minimum memory than startup memory, Hyper‑V Windows Server 2012 uses Hyper-V smart paging.
Hyper-V smart paging is a memory management technique that uses disk resources as additional, temporary memory when more memory is required to restart a virtual machine. This approach has advantages and drawbacks. It provides a reliable way to keep the virtual machines running when no physical memory is available. However, it can degrade virtual machine performance because disk access speeds are much slower than memory access speeds.
To minimize the performance impact of Hyper-V smart paging, Hyper‑V uses it only when all of the following occur:
The virtual machine is being restarted.
No physical memory is available.
No memory can be reclaimed from other virtual machines running on the host.
Hyper-V smart paging isn’t used when:
A virtual machine is being started from an off state (instead of a restart).
Oversubscribing memory for a running virtual machine would result.
A virtual machine is failing over in Hyper‑V clusters.
Internal guest paging
Hyper‑V continues to rely on internal guest paging when host memory is oversubscribed because it’s more effective than Hyper-V smart paging. With internal guest paging, the paging operation inside virtual machines is performed by Windows Memory Manager. Windows Memory Manager has more information than the Hyper‑V host about memory usage within the virtual machine, which means it can provide Hyper‑V with better information to use when choosing the memory to be paged. Because of this, internal guest paging incurs less overhead to the system when compared to Hyper-V smart paging.
Memory ballooning
To further reduce the impact of Hyper-V smart paging, after a virtual machine completes the startup process, Hyper‑V removes memory from the virtual machine, coordinating with Dynamic Memory components inside the guest (a process sometimes referred to as “ballooning”), so that the virtual machine stops using Hyper-V smart paging. With this technique, the use of Hyper-V smart paging is temporary and is not expected to be longer than 10 minutes.
Runtime configuration
Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V enables you to make the following configuration changes to Dynamic Memory when the virtual machine is running:
Increase the maximum memory.
Decrease the minimum memory.
Home lab setup Part 3
After Lab #1 We have our 2 physical machines and 2 virtual Domain controllers (one on each physical hosts)
VMhost10a and VMhost10b. We have them configured as follows:
VMhost10a – physical
IP Address: 192.168.11.5
Subnet Mask: 225.225.225.0
Gateway: none
DNS1: 192.168.11.100
DNS2: 192.168.11.110
VMHost10B – physical, 192.168.11.10
IP Address: 192.168.11.10
Subnet Mask: 225.225.225.0
Gateway: none
DNS1: 192.168.11.100
DNS2: 192.168.11.110
ITCAMP-DC1 and ITCAMP-DC2. We have them configured as follows:
ITCAMP-DC1 – Virtual
IP Address: 192.168.11.100
Subnet Mask: 225.225.225.0
Gateway: none
DNS1: 192.168.11.100
DNS2: 192.168.11.110
ITCAMP-DC2 – Virtual
IP Address: 192.168.11.110
Subnet Mask: 225.225.225.0
Gateway: none
DNS1: 192.168.11.110
DNS2: 192.168.11.100
In this lab we will get our hands on a couple more machines that we will build and use in our scenarios.
Build our ITCAMP-SMB server
Using the VHD downloaded here (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-ca/evalcenter/hh670538.aspx) after extracting it to a temporary location, I copied it to the location I want my ITCAMP-SMB machine to be located and renamed it to ITCAMP-SMB. Once that’s done I created a new Virtual machine on VMHost10A with the following settings:
Name: ITCAMP-SMB
Startup Memory: 1024MB
Network Connection : Use the same Virtual Network as the one configured for ITCAMP-DC1 and ITCAMP-DC2. In our case it’s “CorpNet”
Use an Existing Disk: Use the disk and location we copied at the beginning of this exercise.
everything else is default
Once the machine is created, open the settings for ITCAMP-SMB and under the “SCSI Controller” add 4 disks as shown in the exhibit below:
Once it’s started, there are a few things to do for setup before we can continue with the labs.
Rename to ITCAMP-SMB
Join it to the ITCAMP domain.
Set the IP address to :
IP Address: 192.168.11.150
Subnet Mask: 225.225.225.0
Gateway: none
DNS1: 192.168.11.110
DNS2: 192.168.11.100
Ensure that the following roles (and supporting features) are installed
Build ITCAMP-SCVMM
That one is a little easier. Since System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 is not out yet, you still have to download a pre-baked machine to be used as a System Center 2012 Virtual Machine manager. you can get the SCVMM machine here (http://aka.ms/SCVMM2012SP1)
Once you’ve downloaded and expanded it on VMHost10B just follow the directions included with the virtual machine.
Here is what we have at the end of the build process:
Lab #2
Lab #2 will consist in the following:
Configure dynamic memory for ITCAMP-SMB
Configure to auto start w/ 60 sec delay
Add File and iSCSI Services – File Server Role to VMhost10A,
On VMHOST10A, create share to F:\VMMLibrary
Here is the 7 minutes video on this lab.
If you have other scenarios you would like me to explore and post please leave me a comment.
As always, the easiest way to learn is to download the evaluation and start getting your hands dirty.
As an IT professional this is a concept you know very well.
This is why most of us got in the business anyway. Find cool technologies, play with them, learn how to integrate it and take advantage of it. It’s like playing with toys! Really cool toys. This is why a lot of us have complex networks at home… It’s our labs, our sandboxes, and our playgrounds.
But what if you don’t?
What if all you have is the laptop/desktop that your employer gives you?
What if you only have one machine?
Worst, what if you’re not allowed to test with your wife/girlfriend/significant other’s machine because you “Claused” it in an ulterior attempt at testing? Like I did before….
(Clausing a machine is defined by the act of rendering it unusable. A termed coined in honour of our good friend Rick Claus @RicksterCDN)
Well we do have options.
You can dual boot your machine or do like I did. I use a dual boot configuration that I can remove from my machine at any time. A configuration that did not require a re-sizing of my partitions. What I use is the VHD download found here
Once downloaded it’s just a matter of expanding it to your hard drive and add it to your boot menu. Done!
If you need the space, delete the VHD file, remove the boot entry, you’re done.
Here is a quick (5:44 minutes) video on how I got it accomplished.
the bottom line is, you need to evaluate things before you can deploy them. That a given. Whether you decide to install a full version on a spare machine or use the VHD option as described above is up to you. Once you’re setup and ready to go come back to this blog site. In the next weeks we will continue to cover Windows Server 2012 scenarios that are important to IT Pros.
Here are some of the scenarios we’ve already covered.
I know… That last one is not about Windows Server 2012… but it’s still cool.
So the first step is to go and get the goods. Download the evaluation version here. Learn at www.MicrosoftVirtualAcademy.com and keep coming back to the CANITPRO blog for more scenarios.
And, at the risk of sounding like a broken record, let us know what scenarios are important to you. We’ll add them to our list and see about presenting content you can benefit from.
Leave us a comment, connect with us. That’s why were here. We’re looking forward to it.
This is my compilation of some of the online resource available to you in April 2012.
This list featuring both live and on-demand content including webcasts, videos, virtual labs, and podcasts by product and topic.
this is not the WHOLE list of the available content. but these are the ones i thought were relevant to customers and IT pros.
Microsoft webcasts are 30-90 minutes in length and feature interactive presentations, product demonstrations, and question-and-answer sessions. Virtual labs give you an opportunity to test drive Microsoft’s newest products in an online environment. It’s simple—no complex setup or installation is required. Stream or download audio podcasts and quickly access content with RSS feeds.
Microsoft podcasts are free — just click and Learn!
You can View all the podcasts for IT professionals here.
This is my compilation of some of the online resource available to you in March 2012.
This list featuring both live and on-demand content including webcasts, videos, virtual labs, and podcasts by product and topic.
this is not the WHOLE list of the available content. but these are the ones i thought were relevant to customers and IT pros.
Microsoft webcasts are 30-90 minutes in length and feature interactive presentations, product demonstrations, and question-and-answer sessions. Virtual labs give you an opportunity to test drive Microsoft’s newest products in an online environment. It’s simple—no complex setup or installation is required. Stream or download audio podcasts and quickly access content with RSS feeds.
Microsoft podcasts are free — just click and Learn!
You can View all the podcasts for IT professionals here.
Business insights, Microsoft Dynamics, IT talk shows, and small business content:
Getting the Most Out of Your Business With Office 365 Microsoft Office 365 is Microsoft Office collaboration with productivity tools created to improve business potential. In this series of Office 365 webcasts focuses on Microsoft SharePoint Online, Microsoft Lync and Microsoft Exchange. Office 365 can revolutionize your organization by helping to empower individuals through the best productivity experience, deliver business insights quickly, support compliance requirements, connect various devices, and cut costs for maintenance and training.
Business Ready Licensing, Get the Most Out of Your Investment In this webcast, learn how to take your business solution to the next level and expand the functionality of your current system by transitioning from Module Based Licensing (MBL) to Business Ready Licensing (BRL). BRL offers you the choice of two license editions—Business Essentials Edition and Advanced Management Edition—to best support your business processes and needs.
How to with “ITProGuru”, Dan Stolts Are you required to keep your infrastructure humming? Keep up with the systems management expert and ITProGuru as he teaches you how to overcome challenges you face in your business. He will focus most of the content on systems management, security, virtualization and cloud. However, more topics that include other technologies and the IT community will be addressed as well. Learn how to leverage community to grow and streamline your business, your department, your career, and your sphere of influence.
IT Time with Blain Barton: Get IT from the Source Blain Barton and other Microsoft IT Pro Evangelists invite IT guests to join their online radio show to discuss Information Technology topics. System Administrators, IT Engineers, Product and Program Managers, and other guests from inside and outside Microsoft join the broadcasts to share their insights on topics like Windows Deployment, Cloud Computing, Windows Azure, Virtualization, Web, SQL Server, Exchange Server, and other resources from Microsoft.
Deployment Essentials with John Baker: Tools to Help Solve Your Deployment and Operational IT Problems Need help in deploying Windows 7 and Office 2010? You’ve come to the right place! We have a variety of resources for the wide range of tools available from Microsoft to assist you in your deployment efforts. John Baker, a Senior IT Pro Evangelist with Microsoft, will host a series of videos taking a detailed look at the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 Update 1 and the Application Compatibility Toolkit, both free toolsets. Future videos will also look at System Center Configuration Manager and System Center Essentials to see how they can be used to manage deployments.
TechNet Radio: The Mic is Yours TechNet Radio is an Internet Radio show with content for IT professionals. TechNet Radio features the latest information from Microsoft insiders and industry luminaries, as well as profiles of leading companies. We bring you the trends and technologies that are shaping our industry, and offer perspectives from your peers.
Please let me know if this is something you find valuable. or if there is something specific you’re looking for.
There is so much to learn. we should take advantage of every opportunities.
As always, please contact me should you have any comments or questions.
Cheers!
Pierre Roman, MCITP, ITIL | Senior Technical Account Manager | Directeur de Compte Technique Senior Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn
This is my compilation of some of the online resource available to you in February 2012. This list featuring both live and on-demand content including webcasts, videos, virtual labs, and podcasts by product and topic.
this is not the WHOLE list of the available content. but these are the ones i thought were relevant to customers and IT pros.
Microsoft webcasts are 30-90 minutes in length and feature interactive presentations, product demonstrations, and question-and-answer sessions. Virtual labs give you an opportunity to test drive Microsoft’s newest products in an online environment. It’s simple—no complex setup or installation is required. Stream or download audio podcasts and quickly access content with RSS feeds.
Microsoft podcasts are free — just click and Learn!
TechNet Webcast: Information about Microsoft Security Bulletins for February (Level 200) Wednesday, February 15, 2012 – 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Pacific Time Jerry Bryant, Senior Program Manager, Group Manager, Response Communications, Microsoft Corporation Dustin Childs, Senior Security Program Manager, Microsoft Security Response Center, Microsoft Corporation https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032499501&Culture=en-US
TechNet Webcast: Integrating Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 with SAP for Expense Management (Level 300) Tuesday, February 21, 2012 – 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM Pacific Time Ade Ajayi, Microsoft IT Senior Solution Manager, Microsoft Corporation Shiran Sathananthan, Microsoft IT Principle Program Manager Lead, Microsoft Corporation https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032499676&Culture=en-US
Microsoft Office System Webcast: Excel 2010: Create Named Ranges, and Use Them with Advanced Formulas (Level 100) Wednesday, February 15, 2012 – 9:00 AM – 9:45 AM Pacific Time Jed Warren, Training Specialist / Office Systems Expert, Microsoft Corporation https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032503405&Culture=en-US
Microsoft Office System Webcast: PowerPoint 2010: Control and Manage the Flow of Your PowerPoint Presentations (Level 200) Wednesday, February 15, 2012 – 11:00 AM – 11:45 AM Pacific Time Jed Warren, Training Specialist / Office Systems Expert, Microsoft Corporation https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032503407&Culture=en-US
IT Manager Webcast: How Microsoft IT Takes Initial Steps Toward the Consumerization of IT (Level 200) Thursday, February 02, 2012 – 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM Pacific Time Chris Dieringer, Microsoft IT Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation Paul Selsor, Microsoft IT Field Infrastructure Technology Strategist, Microsoft Corporation https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032502281&Culture=en-US
Office Tips and Tricks with Jed Warren Are you interested in utilizing Microsoft Office to its fullest extent? Join us as we discuss some of the valuable tips and tricks you can use throughout the entire Office Suite. From how to best create vibrant PowerPoint presentations to how to use Excel to its highest potential, these helpful webcasts can give you the inside track as to get the most out of Microsoft Office.
Learn the Benefits of Business Ready Licensing Gain an understanding of how you can take your business solution to the next level by transitioning from module-based licensing (MBL) to business-ready licensing (BRL). Expand the impact of your existing business solution by leveraging one of BRL’s two license editions—Business Essentials Edition or Advanced Management Edition. BRL streamlines the pricing of your Microsoft Dynamics solution to a model that is based on the number of users who actually use the software, rather than MBL’s more-complex module/granule + users mechanism. Microsoft offers a program to Microsoft Dynamics GP, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, and Microsoft Dynamics SL customers who are interested in making a license model transition. We highlight the details in this webcast.
Please let me know if this is something you find valuable. or if there is something specific you’re looking for. Also, if you’re in the Toronto area, i highly recommend the IT Virtualization Boot Camps. They are brought to you by your local user group and Microsoft TechDays Canada. The first two IT Virtualization Boot Camps will take place at the Microsoft Mississauga offices on January 21, 2012 and January 23, 2012. The IT Virtualization Boot Camp provides a fun and collaborative environment where you will get hands-on experience to:
Prepare your Windows Server-based computer for virtualization
Configure an iSCSI storage server
Create a Windows Failover Cluster
Make Hyper-V virtual machines highly available and using Live Migration to move running workloads between hosts with no loss in client connectivity
Integrate non-Microsoft-based virtual machines into your cluster
See how Windows Failover Clustering can help to make dealing with hardware failure easier
This is my compilation of some of the online resource available to you in January 2012. JANUARY 2012 !!! My god… Where did 2011 go??? Time really flies by, and that’s one more reason to review this list and plan our learning opportunities.
This list featuring both live and on-demand content for December including webcasts, videos, virtual labs, and podcasts by product and topic. this is not the WHOLE list of the available content. but these are the ones i thought were relevant to the conversations I’ve had with customers and IT pros.
Microsoft webcasts are 30-90 minutes in length and feature interactive presentations, product demonstrations, and question-and-answer sessions. Virtual labs give you an opportunity to test drive Microsoft’s newest products in an online environment. It’s simple—no complex setup or installation is required. Stream or download audio podcasts and quickly access content with RSS feeds.
Microsoft podcasts are free — just click and Learn!
New Customer Events for Office 365 Join us for a Microsoft Office 365 Customer Event to experience Microsoft Office 365 first-hand, along with related cloud technologies such as Microsoft Windows Intune and Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online.
New and Exciting Uses for the New Office 365 Microsoft Office 365 is a suite of Microsoft Office collaboration and productivity tools delivered through the cloud. Office 365 can revolutionize your organization by helping to empower individuals through the best productivity experience, deliver business insights quickly, support compliance requirements, connect various devices, and cut costs for maintenance and training.
Today my daughters helped me realize something. they convinced me to stop watching videos and reading “howto” articles and actually strap on the snowboard and go to the hills with them. You see… I’ve been contemplating learning to Snowboard. I went out I bought a board, boots, a helmet, the whole kit and kaboodle. (I don’t know where this expression comes from but this is something my dad used to say all the time…) Then to prepare, I read articles, I watched videos. I thought I was learning. WRONG!!!! I was definitely fooling myself.
I thought I would look like this picture after my research.
I was so far from learning to snowboard. in fact it looked like I was learning to snowplow down the hill, with my face. I looked a lot more like this…
I then realized that this translate very well to my professional life. I’ve never been a book learner. I need to do it. As my wife the grade 6 teacher tells me I’m a tactile learner. I need to put my hands on the stuff I’m trying to learn to get it. That’s why when trying to rap my head around new products like the new System Center 2012 Suite that just got it’s RC release I need to download it put it up in my lab and start playing with it. As I run in to situations, I then go to blogs and TechNet to figure out the details. there is nothing like getting your hands on the goods.
I’m telling you I spent more time reading and watching about Snowboarding then I did actually going down the mountain. but I can tell you that the last run of the day was the best. I stayed mostly upright, did not break anything and learned a little. but a lot more than just reading about it. I love the last run of the day, because it leads to the chalet. but whether its learning to snowboard or learning to take advantage of the System Center 2012 suite somehow I always end up here!
Now, get going! go the the evaluation center, and download something. Never stop learning. Whether it learning new IT skills, or learning not to break your neck. They both can bring you satisfaction and a sense of accomplishment that only that kind of personal growth can bring you.
Pierre Roman, MCITP, ITIL | Senior Technical Account Manager | Directeur de Compte Technique Senior IT Pro blog | Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn
This is my compilation of some of the online resource available to you in December.
This list featuring both live and on-demand content for December including webcasts, videos, virtual labs, and podcasts by product and topic. this is not the WHOLE list of the available content. but these are the ones i thought were relevant to the conversations I’ve had with customers and IT pros.
Microsoft webcasts are 30-90 minutes in length and feature interactive presentations, product demonstrations, and question-and-answer sessions. Virtual labs give you an opportunity to test drive Microsoft’s newest products in an online environment. It’s simple—no complex setup or installation is required. Stream or download audio podcasts and quickly access content with RSS feeds.
Microsoft podcasts are free — just click and Learn!
Please let me know if this is something you find valuable. or if there is something specific you’re looking for.
Like i said last month, I’ll try to religiously update this post every month so you have a way to easily find and take advantage of resources to continue your learnings. As always, please contact me should you have any comments or questions.
Cheers!
Pierre Roman, MCITP, ITIL | Senior Technical Account Manager | Directeur de Compte Technique Senior IT Pro blog | Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn
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