HPE 7500 Comware v5 EoS — HP 7502 Main Processing Unit
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 JH208A 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.
JH208A 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, JH208A units can often be kept in production through third-party maintenance providers. HPE no longer issues software fixes, support, or hardware replacement for it.