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Barracuda Load Balancer ADC 240
Secure Application Delivery & Load Balancing


Barracuda Load Balancer ADC 240

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Highly demanding enterprise networks require full-featured application delivery that optimizes application load balancing and performance while providing protection from an ever-expanding list of intrusions and attacks.

The affordable Barracuda Load Balancer ADC is ideal for optimizing application performance and availability. Using health and performance checks, the Barracuda Load Balancer ADC distributes traffic among servers for efficient use of server resources and provides server failover for high-availability. Advanced features for application optimization, geo-based load balancing, and integrated security put the Barracuda Load Balancer ADC far above other solutions for performance - and value.

The Barracuda Advantage

  • Proven technology that has blocked more than 11 billion real-world attacks
  • High-performance platform designed for data centers
  • GeoIP-based application control
  • Pre-built application templates for rapid deployment
  • Available as a virtual appliance

Product Spotlight

  • Multiport platform with fiber and copper network interfaces
  • Advanced Layer 4 & Layer 7 load balancing
  • SSL offloading & application acceleration
  • Global Server Load Balancing for application delivery across data centers
  • Comprehensive attack protection and Data Loss Prevention

Acceleration

Acceleration

The Barracuda Load Balancer ADC is ideal for optimizing application performance. It offloads compute-intensive SSL transactions from the server, preserving resources for applications. In addition, optimization features such as caching, compression, and TCP pooling enable faster application delivery and ensure scalability.

Availability

Availability

Using health and performance checks, the Barracuda Load Balancer ADC distributes traffic for efficient use of server resources and employs server failover for high availability. Global Server Load Balancing allows redundancy across multiple sites enhancing availability and speeding disaster recovery.

Control

Control

Content routing and content rewrites enable full control of application traffic and customized application delivery based on users, regions, and/or devices. Client controls gives administrators the ability to throttle requests to ensure application availability even during periods of heavy traffic.

Security

Security

Application Security provides superior protection against data loss, DDoS, and all known application-layer attack modalities. Automatic updates ensure comprehensive security for existing and emerging Layer 7 threats such as Cross-site Scripting (XSS), SQL injections (SQLi), and Cross-site Request Forgery (CSRF).

Ensure application scalability, performance, and security:

Ensure application scalability, performance, and security

Ensure Application Scalability, Performance, and Security

The Barracuda Load Balancer ADC is ideal for organizations looking for a high-performance, yet cost-effective application delivery and security solution. With the broadest range of hardware and virtual models, the Barracuda Load Balancer ADC provides maximum flexibility for organizations looking to build highly secure and scalable application infrastructure, whether it's deployed on-premises or in the cloud.

Secure Application Delivery Controller for Availability, Acceleration, and Control

Highly demanding enterprise networks require full-featured application delivery that optimizes application load balancing and performance while providing protection from an ever-expanding list of intrusions and attacks.

What do you want to balance? Internet Connections or Application Servers?

Benefits:


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Highly Scalable

The Barracuda Load Balancer ADC is ideal for optimizing application performance. It offloads compute-intensive SSL transactions from the server, preserving resources for applications. In addition, optimization features such as caching, compression, and TCP pooling enable faster application delivery and ensure scalability.

Key Features: SSL Offloading, HTTP Caching, Data Compression, Content Routing

Microsoft CertifiedMicrosoft Certified

The Barracuda Load Balancer ADC has been the preferred solution for organizations looking to load balance and secure Microsoft applications. Certified configuration and deployment guides ensure organizations can quickly and easily scale Microsoft applications, while also securing them against targeted attacks or unauthorised access.

Key Features: Microsoft Certified for Exchange and Lync, Pre-Built Templates for Microsoft Applications


Always Available Performance

Always Available Performance

Using health and performance checks, the Barracuda Load Balancer ADC distributes traffic for efficient use of server resources and employs server failover for high availability, thereby optimizing application performance. Global Server Load Balancing allows redundancy across multiple sites enhancing availability, improving client response time, and speeding disaster recovery.

Key Features: L4/L7 Load Balancing, Intelligent Application Monitors, Global Server Load Balancing

Secure Application Delivery

Secure Application Delivery

Application security provides superior protection against data loss, DDoS, and all known application-layer attack modalities. Automatic updates ensure comprehensive security for existing and emerging Layer 7 threats such as SQL injections (SQLi), Cross-site Scripting (XSS), and other OWASP Top 10 attacks.

Key Features: Automatic Security Updates, Application Attack and DDoS Protection, Data Loss Prevention

Features:

L4/L7 Load Balancing

The Load Balancer ADC can be deployed as a hardware or virtual appliance and can intelligently load balance hardware or virtual servers running any number of Layer 7 and Layer 4 protocols. These include HTTP/S, SMTP, IMAP, FTP/S, DNS, XML, TCP, and UDP, as well as a number of other common protocols. Additionally, it supports both IPv6 and IPv4 load balancing and can operate in full IPv6 or IPv4 networks, as well as mixed environments where an address translation is needed to bridge the IPv6 and IPv4 networks.

Intelligent Application Monitors

Intelligent traffic monitoring capabilities enable the Barracuda Load Balancer ADC to distribute traffic efficiently while ensuring high application availability. It monitors server health to determine that application servers are not only reachable, but alive. If the Barracuda Load Balancer ADC detects issues, it automatically removes downed servers from the server pool and rebalances traffic among the remaining servers. It has the ability to group servers in the application groups so that if a server in a group fails, it can automatically failover all traffic to the remaining application groups.

Global Server Load Balancing

For scalability and high availability across data centers, Barracuda Load Balancer ADCs can be deployed to balance traffic among different sites in different geographic regions. Organizations can route traffic using a variety of methods such as primary disaster recovery (DR) or closest geographical data center.

SSL Offloading

SSL transactions are resource intensive and can slow down application performance. Offloading the SSL transactions to Barracuda Load Balancer ADCs frees up application server resources to focus on delivering rich applications to end users and ensure application scalability. Barracuda Load Balancer ADCs support offloading standard 1024-bit SSL keys, as well as the more secure and more process-intensive 2048-bit SSL keys.

Authentication and Authorization

The Barracuda Load Balancer ADC fully integrates Active Directory or any other RADIUS or LDAP-compatible authentication services. Combined with the strong access control capabilities, administrators can provide granular control over user/group access to resources. This ensures that only authorised users will be able to reach applications, guaranteeing that non-authenticated traffic never crosses the DMZ.

HTTP Caching

The Barracuda Load Balancer ADC improves the user’s experience by increasing server response time. Caching web content saves network bandwidth and reduces loads on backend web servers.

Data Compression

To maximize outbound bandwidth, the Barracuda Load Balancer ADC can automatically compress content to minimize network traffic between application servers and the end user. Best of all, this capability is compatible with most modern browsers, requiring no additional software.

Content Routing

The Barracuda Load Balancer ADC has full traffic control and can route requests to servers based on region, device, browser, or a number of other factors. This enables organizations to deliver customized application responses to users.

Application Attack and DDoS Protection

The Barracuda Load Balancer ADC provides industry-leading security to help organizations secure critical applications. It protects against OWASP Top 10 attacks such as SQL Injection, Cross-site Scripting (XSS), and Cross-site Request Forgery (CSRF). Additionally, Barracuda Load Balancer ADCs have the ability to granularly control the number of requests to protect against rate-based attacks like Denial of Service (DoS) or Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS). Administrators have the ability to intelligently fingerprint and throttle or drop traffic based on IP or client.

Data Loss Prevention

The Barracuda Load Balancer ADC also offers outbound content inspection for Data Loss Prevention (DLP). It prevents data leakage by either masking or blocking responses containing sensitive information such as credit card numbers or any other custom data patterns.

Automatic Security Updates

The security capabilities of the Barracuda Load Balancer ADC are augmented by an extensive network of more than 150,000 sensors deployed worldwide that feed into Barracuda Labs. The sensors provide valuable data for the security research team to build new security definitions and automatically update units in the field. The ability to apply new definitions and “virtually patch” ensure the highest security posture for critical applications.

Microsoft Certified for Exchange and Lync

Barracuda provides a complete application delivery solution for Microsoft Exchange and Lync. Barracuda Load Balancer ADCs have been certified by Microsoft as a preferred Hardware Load Balancing solution since 2010. Our highly trained technical support engineers have worked with countless Barracuda customers and partners to design and implement robust solutions for scaling Exchange and Lync applications.

Pre-Built Templates for Microsoft Applications

Thousands of organizations from numerous verticals deploy Barracuda to ensure high availability, performance, and security of their critical Microsoft applications. There a number of certified deployments and solution guides for all commonly deployed models and versions of Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, Terminal Services, IIS, Threat Management Gateway (TMG) and other popular Microsoft applications. You can find all of our technical guides and solutions at our Barracuda Campus.

Cloud Edition for Amazon Web Services

Barracuda Load Balancer ADC provides full-featured application delivery along with unparalleled performance, plus greater control for applications hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The Barracuda Load Balancer ADC integrates with CloudFormation Templates to support fully automated deployments with bootstrapping and High Availability (HA).

VDI

Many organizations are using desktop virtualization (VDI) to securely delivery Windows and other desktop applications. Desktop infrastructure is a mission critical application that needs to scale as the organization grows. It is also important this infrastructure be resilient in the face of operational and natural disasters. The key to scalability and reliability is to load balance critical pieces of the VDI infrastructure.

Model Comparison:

The Barracuda Load Balancer ADC comes in multiple models to fit organizations of every size. The entry level Barracuda Load Balancer ADC 240 handles 10 or more real servers with 100 Mbps traffic throughput. The high-capacity Barracuda Load Balancer ADC 840 supports 500 real servers, 10 Gbps traffic throughput, complete application security, and high availability configurations.

Model Comparison 240 340* 440* 540* 640* 641 642 840 841 842
Capacity
Maximum Throughput 100M 1.2 Gbps 2 Gbps 5 Gbps 5 Gbps 10 Gbps 10 Gbps 10 Gbps 15 Gbps 15 Gbps
Real Server Support 10 35 50 100 250 250 250 500 500 500
HTTP Throughput   1 Gbps 2 Gbps 3.6 Gbps 3.6 Gbps 8.5 Gbps 8.5 Gbps 3.6 Gbps 13 Gbps 13 Gbps
HTTPS (SSL) Throughput   250 Mbps 400 Mbps 1 Gbps 1.3 Gbps 1.3 Gbps 1.3 Gbps 4.2 Gbps 4.2 Gbps 4.2 Gbps
Max. Compression Throughput       2 Gbps 2 Gbps 4 Gbps 4 Gbps 4 Gbps 7 Gbps 7 Gbps
Layer 4 Concurrent TCP Connections 500K 4M 10M 14M 16M 16M 16M 20M 20M 20M
Layer 4 TCP Connections per second 40K 40K 100K 120K 165K 165K 165K 360K 360K 360K
HTTP Connections per second   17K 22K 24K 60K 60K 60K 100K 100K 100K
HTTPS (SSL) Terminations per sec (2K Keys)   200 400 1400 8300 8300 8300 24000 24000 24000
Hardware
Rackmount Chassis 1U Mini 1U Mini 1U Mini 1U Mini 1U Fullsize 1U Fullsize 1U Fullsize 2U Fullsize 2U Fullsize 2U Fullsize
Dimensions (in.) 16.8 x 1.8 x 9 16.8 x 1.7 x 16 16.8 x 1.7 x 16 16.8 x 1.7 x 16 16.8 x 1.7 x 18 16.8 x 1.7 x 18 16.8 x 1.7 x 18 17.4 x 3.5 x 25.5 17.4 x 3.5 x 25.5 17.4 x 3.5 x 25.5
Weight (lbs.) 8 12 12 12 18 18 18 52 52 52
10/100 Copper Ethernet NICs 2                  
1 Gb Copper   4 4 8 8 8 8 8 8 8
10 Gb Copper           2     4  
10 Gb Fiber NICs             2     4
AC Input Current (amps) 0.3 0.46 0.48 0.6 1 1 1 3.8 3.8 3.8
Availability
Layer 4 Load Balancing
Layer 7 Load Balancing  
High Availability Cluster  
Global Server Load Balancing    
Link Bonding    
Application Delivery
SSL Offloading  
Content Routing  
AD and Kerberos Integration  
HTTP Compression    
Content Caching    
Hardware Based SSL Offloading        
SSL hardware acceleration        
Application Security
Inbound Attack Protection      
Outbound Data Theft Protection      
Protection Against DDoS Attacks      

*Select Models Available as Virtualized Appliances
1 The SSL TPS numbers are based on a single handshake per transaction

Security Features

Availability
Availability

Load Balancing:

  • Layer 4 & Layer 7 load balancing
  • IPv6/IPv4 support
  • Active/passive high availability
  • Default load balancing
    - Round robin
    - Weighted round robin
    - Least connection
  • Adaptive load balancing by CPU load, URL load, and terminal sessions
  • Session persistence
  • Server health check and monitoring

Global Server Load Balancing:

  • By priority, geographic IP, and region
  • Health checks between multiple sites

Acceleration
Acceleration

  • SSL offloading
  • Caching & compression
  • TCP connection pooling

Control
Control

  • Application traffic
    - Layer 7 content-based routing
    - Request/response rewrite
  • Client & user limits
    - Brute-force
    - Rate control
    - GeoIP reputation


Application Security

  • Security policies out of the box
  • Website cloaking
  • Form field metadata violation
  • Protection against common attacks
    - OWASP Top 10
    - SQL injections
    - Cross-site Scripting
    - Cookie or form tampering
  • Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
    - Credit card & SSN numbers
    - Custom patterns
  • Granular policy management

Network Security
Network Security

  • Layer 4 ACL
  • VLAN, NAT

Logging, Monitoring and Reporting
Logging, Monitoring and Reporting

  • Connection logs
  • Audit logs
  • Access logs
  • Web Firewall logs
  • Interactive and scheduled reports
  • SNMP monitoring

Authentication/Authorization
Authentication/Authorization

  • LDAP
  • RADIUS
  • Kerberos
  • Two-factor authentication

Supported Protocols
Supported Protocols

  • HTTP/S
  • SSH
  • SMTP
  • IMAP
  • POP3
  • NNTP
  • ASP
  • DNS
  • LDAP
  • RADIUS
  • TFTP
  • RDP
  • VDI
  • WebSocket
  • Windows Terminal Services
  • Any TCP/UDP application

Support Options

Barracuda Energize Updates
Barracuda Energize Updates

  • Firmware updates
  • Application Security updates
  • Standard technical support

Instant Replacement Service
Instant Replacement Service

  • Replacement unit shipped next business day
  • 24x7 technical support
  • Hardware refresh every four years

Management Features

  • Customizable role-based administration
  • Centralized management
  • Real-time traffic statistics
  • Web firewall, access, audit, and system logs
  • Certified deployments with third-party applications

Views:

Front Panel

The following figure illustrates the Barracuda Load Balancer ADC power and disk activity indicator lights for models 240:

Front View


Rear Panel Ports and Connectors

The following figure illustrates the Barracuda Load Balancer ADC rear panel ports and connectors for models 240:

Rear View

Administration:

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Deployment Options

The Barracuda Load Balancer ADC offers the most flexible deployment choices of any load balancer available: Route-Path, Bridge-Path and Direct Server Return. Barracuda Load Balancers ADC can also be deployed to balance traffic among global and regional datacenters for higher-level scalability and high availability.

Topology Requirements By Mode
WAN/LAN Interface Logical Networks Physical Networks
Route Path 2 2
Bridge Path 1+ 2
Direct Server Return 1 1

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Route-Path

Route-path deployments provide the most flexibility. This mode load balances servers downstream from the Barracuda Load Balancer ADC.

Bridge-Path

Bridge-path is the simplest to configure. Administrators place the Barracuda Load Balancer ADC in line with their IP infrastructure and add servers as needed without changing IP addresses.

Direct Server Return

With Direct Server Return (DSR), low-bandwidth requests come in through the Barracuda Load Balancer ADC, which hands them off to servers. The servers respond directly to requests through their own interfaces outside the Barracuda Load Balancer ADC.



Fast Configuration

The Barracuda Load Balancer ADC can be easily configured through an intuitive web interface. The screens are designed for fast navigation and it’s simple to create appliance settings and rules for load balancing. Administrators can quickly add services and servers with “Auto-Discover,” or choose to add them manually. And, pre-built security templates provide immediate security without the need for time-consuming tuning or specialized training.

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Extensive Reporting and Monitoring

The dashboard lets administrators monitor overall network performance at a glance. Easy to read graphs show detailed usage over time. The Heath Status feature provides quick access to health and performance of your servers and services.

Service Monitor

The service monitor tests services and real servers displaying their status in the web interface. Information from the service monitor is helpful for guiding administration. The service monitor also automatically removes downed servers from the server pool.

Automated Backup

Backing up the Barracuda Load Balancer ADC’s configurations is easily automated to keep a copy of the latest configurations at hand for fast restoration.

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Monitor overall network performance right from the Barracuda Load Balancer ADC's dashboard.

Easy to read graphs show detailed usage over time. Monitoring usage trends can be a great help in planning for future growth.


Easy Management

A single management pane for both load balancing and security makes administration simple and efficient.

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Barracuda Load Balancer FAQ:

What security features does the Barracuda Load Balancer have?

The Barracuda Load Balancer has a built-in Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) as well as Access Control Lists (ACL) and an SSL-secured web UI.

How many servers does the Barracuda Load Balancer support?

The Barracuda Load Balancer 240 supports up to 10 real servers while a Barracuda Load Balancer 640 can support up to 250 real servers.

Is it easy to add new servers?

Servers can be added in one step through the Barracuda Load Balancer's web UI.

What protocols and applications does the Barracuda Load Balancer support?

The Barracuda Load Balancer works with any TCP/UDP service or application.

What is Direct Server Return?

Direct Server Return is a load balancing mode unique to Barracuda Networks that manages low-bandwidth requests through the load balancer, but delivers high-bandwidth responses directly to clients without routing back through the load balancer.

Can the Barracuda Load Balancer send traffic to backend servers based on the URL or header?

The Barracuda Load Balancer can route traffic using content rules. These rules can use content from incoming requests such as URL, domains, cookies and HTTP headers.

Documentation:

Download the Barracuda Load Balancer ADC Datasheet (.PDF)

Download the Barracuda Load Balancer ADC Solutions Sheet (.PDF)