Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, 2010 and 2013 Deployment
This article describes how to deploy your Barracuda Load Balancer with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, 2010 and 2013 to increase the scalability and reliability of your SharePoint deployment.
This article applies to:
Barracuda Load Balancer running firmware version 3.6.1.009 or higher
Barracuda Load Balancer model 340 or above
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, 2010 or 2013
This article assumes you are logged into the Barracuda Load Balancer web interface and have an activated subscription.
If you wish to increase the reliability of your Microsoft Office SharePoint Server deployment with High Availability, you must first have a pair of Barracuda Load Balancers joined in a cluster. If your Barracuda Load Balancers are already clustered, the configuration between the active and passive systems is synchronized automatically, so you do not need to modify any passive Barracuda Load Balancers.
Example Installation
This article is written for a SharePoint deployment where SharePoint servers support traffic over both HTTP and HTTPS. In this environment, create two Services on the Barracuda Load Balancer, one for each type of traffic. The incoming traffic will be load-balanced among the servers. The Barracuda Load Balancer will monitor the server health by periodically requesting a page from each server.
Install the SharePoint Certificate on the Barracuda Load Balancer
Obtain the SSL certificate for SharePoint.
Install the certificates, certificate chain, and private key using the BASIC > Certificate page in the Barracuda Load Balancer web interface.
Configure Services
Go to the BASIC > Services page. Make sure the Add New Service section is in the advanced view, and add each Service listed in the following table:
In the Services Configuration table, click the Edit icon in the Actions column for each of the newly added Services. On the Service Detail page that appears:
Encrypted Traffic to Real Servers
The Barracuda Load Balancer decrypts the incoming traffic in order to maintain session persistence using HTTP cookies. By default, this unencrypted traffic is passed to the Real Servers.
If you want the traffic to be sent encrypted instead, then edit each Real Server from the BASIC > Services page and change the Enable HTTPS/SSL setting to Yes.
As a result of deploying the Barracuda Load Balancer, the traffic sent to the Real Servers changes from encrypted to unencrypted, you may have to configure Alternate Access Mappings through SharePoint Central Administration.
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