UCS 5108 Chassis eol

[ShishirDash5204]

Currently we are using the UCS 5108 N20-C6508 chassis. But its in eol . So can we renew the contract for hardware support or we have to replace the whole chassis?

[Steven Tardy · Accepted solution]

This chassis is End-of-Sale, but not End-of-Support.

The contract can be renewed.

There is no need (yet) to replace the chassis.

The first generation UCS chassis (N20-C6508) was updated (UCSB-5108-AC2) to include backplane traces to allow UCS-mini.

The first generation UCS chassis stopped being SOLD, hence the EoL announcement you found.

The first generation UCS chassis is still a perfectly valid/usable/supported chassis.

[ShishirDash5204]

Hi Steven,

However I have found the date of end of support as November 30 2021. Could you please confirm?

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/servers-unified-computing/ucs-b-series-blade-servers/eos-eol-notice-c51-737833.html 

[Steven Tardy]

To better clarify.

FIrst came EOL11134 (can tell by the lower number) which claims end-of-sale and end-of-support.

    https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/servers-unified-computing/ucs-b-series-blade-servers/eos-eol-notice-c51-737833.html

Next came EOL12987 (can tell by the higher number) which claims ONLY end-of-sale and NO end-of-support.

    https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/servers-unified-computing/ucs-b-series-blade-servers/eos-eol-notice-c51-742164.html

The first page even was updated to include line:

Note:        End of Support Milestones have been updated since this Announcement, please refer to EOL12987

Which basically says ignore the first page and only pay attention to the second page.

I know it can be confusing and has to do with being unable to remove EoX pages.

Eventually when actual end-of-support is announced there will be yet-another-page to add to the confusion.

[tlarsen1]

Hi Steven.

Thank you for clarifying.

Best regards

Thomas

[ShishirDash5204]

thanks Steven

[tlarsen1]

Hi Steven.

It will be end of support on 30 of November 2021, right?

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/servers-unified-computing/ucs-b-series-blade-servers/eos-eol-notice-c51-737833.html

Best Regards

Thomas

[ShishirDash5204]

If Yes, then please suggest the replacement . It will be helpful.

[mdrudge]

If you look at the EOL announcement referenced above, it says it's "Amended" right at the top.  I believe that this is the correct doc: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/servers-unified-computing/ucs-b-series-blade-servers/eos-eol-notice-c51-742164.pdf .  The Chassis originally had an EOL of Nov 30, but that was changed.  Unfortunately, when you do a search online, you will most likely find the original doc with a note that it has been amended, but it still shows the original date.  We looked into this a couple of months ago, and I confirmed it with our Cisco sales rep.  Do note, however, that the UCSB-PSU-2500ACPL that you may have in some of the chassis is still EOL as of June 30, 2022, so those may need to be replaced soon: End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco UCS N20-6508 5108 UCS Blade Server AC Power Supply .  I don't know about you, I think replacing some PSUs is a lot less painful than replacing a whole chassis