As organizations turn to virtualization as a way to save money, simplify deployments and reduce their environmental footprint, Barracuda Networks is offering virtual appliance versions of the Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall and Barracuda SSL VPN with additional solutions to follow.
Virtual appliances enable enterprises to harness the same powerful security and networking technologies available in the Barracuda Networks range of hardware based solutions.
Barracuda Networks virtual appliances are an ideal choice for enterprises that are standardizing hardware platforms or with existing virtual environments like VMware. As the organization grows, these appliances can be easily scaled for performance and capacity and also lend themselves to quicker backup and disaster recovery.
The virtual appliances combined with industry leading storage, security and networking hardware appliances from Barracuda Networks provide flexible deployment options to meet the unique needs of small, medium and large enterprises.
Key Features:
- Same powerful technology as the Barracuda Networks hardware appliances
- Same simple Web based user interface
- Simple installation in your existing VMware infrastructure
- Can be combined with Barracuda Networks hardware appliances
- Plug and play deployment
- Maintenance free through automatic updates
- Lower TCO
System Requirements
Currently, Barracuda Virtual Appliances are supported on
- VMware ESX/ESXi 3.5 Update 2 and higher
- Minimum of 512 Mb RAM (1 Gb recommended)
- 40 Gb available hard disk space
For information regarding other hypervisors or virtual infrastructures (like VMware Server, CITRIX XenApp, Microsoft Hyper-V), please
contact us.
Model Specifications
These are Barracuda Networks products which have been made available for virtual platforms.
Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall Vx
| Active Email Users |
1-501 |
Up to 1,000 |
Up to 5,000 |
Up to 10,0002 |
| CPU Cores Allowed |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 or more2 |
| Outbound filtering |
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| Cloud Protection Layer |
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| Email Encryption |
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| LDAP Accelerator |
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| Per User Settings & Quarantine |
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| Delegated Help Desk Role |
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| Syslog Support |
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| Clustering & Remote Clustering |
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| Per Domain Settings |
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| SNMP API |
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| Customizable Branding |
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| Per User Score Settings |
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| Delegated Domain Administration |
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1 Limited to providing antispam and antivirus protection for up to 50 email addresses.
2 Licenses for additional cores can be purchased to add capacity for more users.
Barracuda SSL VPN Vx
| Estimated Concurrent Users |
151 |
50 |
100 |
5002 |
| Number of CPU cores required |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 or more2 |
| SSL Tunneling |
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| Barracuda Network Connector |
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| Intranet Web Forwarding |
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| Network File Access |
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| Windows Explorer Mapped Drives |
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| Citrix XenApp/VNC/NX/Telnet/SSH/RDP Applications |
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| Remote Desktop single-sign-on |
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| Antivirus |
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| Virtual Keyboard |
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| Active Diretory/LDAP Integration |
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| Layered Authentication Schemes |
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| Syslog Logging |
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| Remote Assistance |
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| Multiple User Realms |
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| Barracuda SSL Server Agent |
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| Hardware Token Support |
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| RADIUS Authentication |
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| Clustering/High Availability |
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| SNMP/API |
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1 Limited to providing remote access to 15 concurrent users.
2 Licenses for additional cores can be purchased to add capacity for more users.
Barracuda Web Application Firewall Vx
| Backend Servers Supported |
1-5 |
5-10 |
10-25 |
| Inbound Web Traffic |
25 Mbps |
50 Mbps |
100 Mbps |
| HTTP Transactions/sec |
3,000 |
6,000 |
9,000 |
| SSL Transactions/sec |
2,000 |
4,000 |
6,000 |
| HTTP/HTTPS/FTP Protocol Validation |
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| Protection Against Common Attacks |
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| Form Field Meta Data Validation |
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| Web Site Cloaking |
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| Response Control |
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| Outbound Data Theft Protection |
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| Granular Policies to HTML Elements |
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| Protocol Limit Checks |
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| File Upload Control |
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| Logging, Monitoring and Reporting |
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| High Availability |
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| SSL Offloading |
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| Authentication and Authorization |
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| LDAP/RADIUS Integration |
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| Load Balancing |
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| Content Routing |
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| RSA SecurID |
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| CA SiteMinder |
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| XML Firewall |
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| Anti Virus checks for file uploads |
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Barracuda NG Firewall Vx
| Number of IPs |
25 |
50 |
100 |
250 |
500 |
UL |
UL |
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| Number of CPU Cores Allowed |
2 |
2 |
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4 |
8 |
16 |
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| VPN |
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| IPS+ |
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| Layer 7 Application Control+ |
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| Traffic Intelligence |
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| WAN compression |
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| Online Web Filter+ |
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| Spam Filter |
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| NG Web Filter |
Optional |
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| NG Malware protection |
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| NG Secure Web Proxy |
Optional |
Optional |
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*One Barracuda NG Firewall Vx virtual image covers all of these editions.
+Requires a valid Energize Update subscription.
Load Balancer Vx Comparison
| Number of CPU Cores Allowed |
1 |
2 or more |
| Layer 4 Load Balancing |
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| Layer 7 Load Balancing |
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| Cookie Persistence |
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| HTTP Header / Parameter |
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| Persistence |
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| SSL Offloading |
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| Direct Server Return |
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| Intrusion Prevention |
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| High Availability |
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| SNMP |
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| API |
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| Global Server Load Balancing |
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| HTTP Compression |
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| HTTP Caching |
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Spam Firewall Documentation
DataSheets
Guides:
SSLVPN Documentation
DataSheets
Guides:
Load Balancer Documentation
DataSheets