Brocade 5100 — Brocade 5100 Fibre Channel switch
Covered past the OEM cutoff by an independent maintainer.
Modules and units still circulate on the secondary market.
Carrying production traffic? Set the replacement window now, not mid-outage.
Low-criticality role — document the risk, harden backups, retire on your terms.
No. Brocade's last date of support for 5100 was Jan 2019 (per the Brocade end-of-sale bulletin) — it is past end of service life.
5100 reached end of sale Apr 2013, per the Brocade end-of-sale bulletin.
Jan 2019 — per the Brocade end-of-sale bulletin.
After the last date of support, 5100 units can often be kept in production through third-party maintenance providers. Brocade no longer issues software fixes, support, or hardware replacement for it.