Brocade X6 Director — Brocade X6 Director Fibre Channel director
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.
Yes, for now. Brocade's last date of support for X6-4 is Jul 2029 (per the Brocade end-of-sale bulletin).
X6-4 reached end of sale Jul 2024, per the Brocade end-of-sale bulletin.
Jul 2029 — per the Brocade end-of-sale bulletin.
After the last date of support, X6-4 units can often be kept in production through third-party maintenance providers. Brocade no longer issues software fixes, support, or hardware replacement for it.