Item: Barracuda Load Balancer ADC
Rating: 8
Author: Shawn Umansky

Overall Satisfaction with Barracuda Load Balancer

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use our Barracuda Load Balancer to load balance both our VDI and Exchange traffic. All traffic for both these services go through the load balancer.

Pros and Cons

Pros

It provides real time monitoring of each server being load balanced, and will show an alert if something goes offline.
It allows one to put a server or service in maintenance mode in preparation for planned maintenance.

Cons

Overall, there are no issues. It just runs.

Return on Investment

It was a prerequisite for moving to Microsoft Exchange 2016, which requires a load balancer solution as part of the design. So, it allowed us to move forward with that upgrade. Having it to load balance VDI sessions is a bonus.

Alternatives Considered

We did not seriously evaluate any other products. We have had a Barracuda Spam Firewall for many years, and that has been amazing. This seemed like a good choice as well.

Likelihood to Recommend

It works well with our Exchange 2016 environment, allowing us to manage SMTP, IMAP, and POP3 as separate services. We also use it with our VMware Horizon View security servers.

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Barracuda Network Load Balancer for Exchange 2016 and VMware Horizon View