Is your server or switch End-of-Life?

EOSL is the date after which the manufacturer no longer provides support, firmware or spare parts. It follows End of Sale (last order date) and, for Cisco, the published “Last Date of Support”. The hardware keeps working after EOSL — but you can no longer buy OEM support, which is the moment to decide between a refresh, third-party maintenance, or holding spares.

Each result shows its source. Cisco dates are the vendor’s own “Last Date of Support” from Cisco End-of-Life bulletins. HPE ProLiant and Juniper dates are cross-checked against lifecycle notices and third-party-maintenance trackers and are hedged inline where the vendor publishes no single public EOSL. One caveat we would rather state than hide: Park Place and Service Express completed a merger on 6 January 2026, and Park Place had already acquired Curvature in 2020, so where those two trackers agree on a date it is one company agreeing with itself rather than two independent sources. eosl.date is separate from both. Always confirm current supportability with Servnet before relying on it commercially.

Because Dell does not publish a model-wide EOSL date — support is tied to each unit’s service tag. Dell’s own Windows Server support matrix notes that almost all 14G platforms have reached End of Life, but it gives no dates. Rather than show a guessed date, we show none and point you to Dell’s service-tag lookup, or we can check your specific unit for you. Lenovo is different: it posts End of Service dates by machine type and model code, which is why the ThinkSystem rows carry dates.

Three main paths. (1) Extend with third-party maintenance (TPM) — independent hardware support at a large discount to OEM renewal, ideal for stable kit past EOSL. (2) Replace with refurbished — a re-certified newer model at a fraction of new, with a fresh support runway. (3) Refresh to current — the right call where performance, power or a compliance-driven patching need makes the old platform a liability. This checker suggests the fit for each model.

Yes — we arrange third-party maintenance across HPE, Dell, Cisco, Lenovo, Juniper and more under one UK contract, supply refurbished replacements, and hold spares. Because we sell both new and refurbished and are vendor-neutral on maintenance, the advice is impartial — we will tell you honestly whether extending or refreshing is the better call.