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Operating System

Windows Server 2012

Product/Feature

Hyper-V

Severity

Category

Note: The following sections provide details about the specific issue. Italics indicates UI text that appears in the Best Practices Analyzer tool for the specific issue.

Issue

The server will accept replication requests for the replica virtual machine from any of the servers in the authorization list associated with the same replication tag as the virtual machine.

Impact

There might be privacy and security concerns with a virtual machine accepting replication from primary servers belonging to different authorization entries. This impacts the following authorization entries: <list of virtual machines>

Resolution

Use different tags in the authorization entries for primary servers with virtual machines that are not part of the same security group. Modify the Hyper-V settings to configure the replication tags.