HP 5400 zl, HP 5400 zl Lic, and Select 5400R zl2 Switch Series — HP zl Chassis FIPS 10K Rack Mounting Kit
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. HPE's last date of support for J9708A was Dec 2020 (derived from HPE's published 5-year support-life policy applied to the end-of-sale date) — it is past end of service life.
J9708A reached end of sale Dec 2015, per the HPE end-of-sale bulletin.
Dec 2020 — derived from HPE's published 5-year support-life policy applied to the end-of-sale date.
After the last date of support, J9708A units can often be kept in production through third-party maintenance providers. HPE no longer issues software fixes, support, or hardware replacement for it.