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Configure a policy to throttle the replication traffic on the network

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Applies to: Windows Server 2022, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2016

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Property Details
Operating System Windows Server 2016
Product/Feature Hyper-V
Severity Warning
Category Configuration

In the following sections, italics indicates UI text that appears in the Best Practices Analyzer tool for this issue.

Issue

There might not be a limit on the amount of network bandwidth that replication is allowed to consume.

Impact

Network bandwidth could become completely dominated by replication traffic, affecting other critical network activity. This impacts the following ports:

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Resolution

If you use another method to throttle network traffic, you can ignore this. Otherwise, use Group Policy Editor to configure a policy that will throttle the network traffic to the relevant port of the Replica server.