Arista 7500E Series 6CFP2 Module (JH542A) Arista 7500E Series — Arista 7500E Series 6CFP2 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 JH542A was Jun 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.
JH542A reached end of sale Jun 2017, per the HPE end-of-sale bulletin.
Jun 2022 — derived from HPE's published 5-year support-life policy applied to the end-of-sale date.
After the last date of support, JH542A units can often be kept in production through third-party maintenance providers. HPE no longer issues software fixes, support, or hardware replacement for it.