HP 7500 Switch Chassis Products — HP 7502 Switch Chassis
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 JD242B 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.
JD242B 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, JD242B units can often be kept in production through third-party maintenance providers. HPE no longer issues software fixes, support, or hardware replacement for it.