Cisco 6500 EOL Announced

[Otanx]

See the link below. Last date of hardware support is 31OCT2025 so still a few years. I think just about every network I have worked on has had at least one 6500 on it. I did a little looking, and there is an EOL notice for 6500 Sup1A in 2004. So these guys have been around for a minute. The non-E Chassis went EOL sometime in 2012 I think.

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/switches/catalyst-6500-series-switches/eos-eol-notice-c51-743096.html

-Otanx

[deanwebb]

Wow... that's an end of an era... don't know if folks are going to snap them up for home labs, though...

[Otanx]

You don't have a pair of 208v30a circuits in your home lab?

-Otanx

[icecream-guy]

the 6513's would make a nice pair of end tables.

we used to say that about the 7513's back in the day,  but they are getting rare.

[Otanx]

One of the executives at a local data center has an old chassis turned into a fish tank. I have not seen it yet so not sure what it was.

-Otanx

[deanwebb]

Could turn one into a beer fridge...

[config t]

Could turn one into a beer fridge...

Yes

[deanwebb]

Could turn one into a beer fridge...

Yes

I have a friend that did a DIY to convert a PDP-11 into a fridge for his home lab/man cave...

[Otanx]

I may watch for a chassis on ebay and turn it into a fridge for my home office. To bad I can't just grab one of our prod ones when we decom them.

-Otanx

[config t]

I may watch for a chassis on ebay and turn it into a fridge for my home office. To bad I can't just grab one of our prod ones when we decom them.

-Otanx

My brain is already working on how I would do it. Would need to destroy a few line cards and find some spacers..

[icecream-guy]

6513 verticle smoker. 

[Otanx]

My brain is already working on how I would do it. Would need to destroy a few line cards and find some spacers..

Yep, I was thinking cuting the line cards to keep just the faces. Cut the entire chassis front off, and reattach with a hinge on one side. Gut the backplane, insulate it. Use a line card board as a shelf. Would have to scrape all the components off to make it flat, or encase it in epoxy. Gut the power supplies. I would use blanks, but I want the fan, and power plugs for the look. All the pumps and motors go in the power supply area. I was also thinking it would make a cool keg fridge, but I don't drink beer. Maybe do one for a friend. Basically the same idea, but with a tap through the top.

For a smoker I have been thinking of doing one out of a metal 5 drawer filing cabinet. You can find videos on YouTube on them. Our smoker died the other week so that might be happening soon.

-Otanx

[config t]

My brain is already working on how I would do it. Would need to destroy a few line cards and find some spacers..

Yep, I was thinking cuting the line cards to keep just the faces. Cut the entire chassis front off, and reattach with a hinge on one side. Gut the backplane, insulate it. Use a line card board as a shelf. Would have to scrape all the components off to make it flat, or encase it in epoxy. Gut the power supplies. I would use blanks, but I want the fan, and power plugs for the look. All the pumps and motors go in the power supply area. I was also thinking it would make a cool keg fridge, but I don't drink beer. Maybe do one for a friend. Basically the same idea, but with a tap through the top.

For a smoker I have been thinking of doing one out of a metal 5 drawer filing cabinet. You can find videos on YouTube on them. Our smoker died the other week so that might be happening soon.

-Otanx

Part of me wants to find a similarly sized refrigerator and just replace the door with the front of the chassis and line card faces. That would be the cheesy way to do it 

The Traeger smoker we have at the family house in Phoenix is outstanding. Highly recommended. Makes me a touch homesick just thinking about it.