Reprovisioning the Barracuda Web Application Firewall Virtual Machine

This article provides the steps on how to reprovision the Barracuda Web Application Firewall virtual machine in the following scenarios:

• Applying the license of a higher model to a lower model or vice versa
• Converting an evaluation unit to a purchased unit

Behavior of the Barracuda WAF Post License Expiry

If the license of a VM is expired. the applications configured on the VM are continued to be protected by the Barracuda WAF and the traffic is served to services as it was before the expiry of the license. But, configuration changes to an existing service or creating a new service or an object is not allowed until the license is renewed.

Pre-requisite

• Virtual Machine with Version 8.1 and above.

Reprovision the Barracuda Web Application Firewall

• Reprovision a Virtual Machine Deployed on Cloud
• Reprovision Virtual Machines (VMs)