HPE 7500 Comware v5 EoS — HPE 7500 48p Gig-T PoE+ Extended Module
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 JD229B was Dec 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.
JD229B reached end of sale Dec 2017, per the HPE end-of-sale bulletin.
Dec 2022 — derived from HPE's published 5-year support-life policy applied to the end-of-sale date.
After the last date of support, JD229B units can often be kept in production through third-party maintenance providers. HPE no longer issues software fixes, support, or hardware replacement for it.