HP JC683A Hewlett-Packard HP ProCurve networking / enterprise server hardware Datacentre Switch

The HP JC683A is a front-to-back airflow fan tray for the HP 5800-series switch JC772A, the mirror-image counterpart to the back-to-front JC682A tray, with two required per switch for full cooling redundancy. As with JC682A, the airflow direction is fixed to the physical tray and must match how the specific 5800 unit is racked relative to the data centre’s hot-aisle/cold-aisle containment, so confirming the direction marked on the existing chassis before ordering avoids installing a tray that works against the room’s airflow design. JC772A is one of the fixed-port members of the 5800 family, and its fan trays are not interchangeable with the different tray design used on HP’s larger modular chassis switches. A fan failure is one of the most common reasons a 5800 unit needs a spare part. Tech-Star (UK-based, shipped worldwide) supplies HP 5800-series fan trays for ongoing switch maintenance.