HP 5500 EI and HP 5500 HI Switches — HP HI 5500-24G-4SFP w/2 Intf Slts 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. HPE's last date of support for JG311A was Mar 2022 (derived from HPE's published 5-year support-life policy applied to the end-of-sale date) — it is past end of service life.
JG311A reached end of sale Mar 2017, per the HPE end-of-sale bulletin.
Mar 2022 — derived from HPE's published 5-year support-life policy applied to the end-of-sale date.
After the last date of support, JG311A units can often be kept in production through third-party maintenance providers. HPE no longer issues software fixes, support, or hardware replacement for it.