R1 Rack Server
Rack Compute · 1U · Half-Width

The T18 R1.
Density that earns its rack.

A single- or dual-socket 1U platform engineered for the workloads that fill regional cloud fabrics: virtualization, containerized services, web-tier, and edge-of-cloud enterprise. Air-hardened to 40°C ambient.

Form Factor
1U
Half or full-width chassis, 730mm depth.
Sockets
1–2
AMD EPYC 9004 or Intel Xeon SP 5th Gen.
Memory
4 TB
32 DDR5-5600 ECC RDIMM slots.
Storage
10× NVMe
Gen5 hot-swap, front-serviced.
01 — Overview

A density-first platform, tuned for the workloads that dominate GCC private cloud.

One SKU, two socket paths

The R1 accepts AMD EPYC 9004 and Intel Xeon SP 5th generation in the same chassis, so your fleet stays homogeneous even when the silicon roadmap does not.

Rack-and-forget serviceability

Toolless drive caddies, redundant hot-swap fans and PSUs, and a rear-hinged riser cage mean median MTTR is under six minutes for field-replaceable units.

Ambient-hardened, not just certified

Validated intake to 40°C at full duty, with derating curves documented in the operations bible so your DC team knows exactly what happens when the room warms up.

T18 BMC + Redfish 1.16

A signed BMC firmware, auditable in-region, with a Redfish 1.16 management surface. No offshore firmware calls home.

02 — Full Specification

Engineered to the socket.
Documented to the rack.

Configurable options are marked red. Contact engineering for special-order variants.

Chassis & Hosts
Form Factor1U · 730mm depth · half or full width
Weight15.4 kg (fully populated)
Sockets1× or 2× · configurable
CPUs SupportedAMD EPYC 9004 · Intel Xeon SP 5th Gen
TDP EnvelopeUp to 400W per socket
Thermal DesignAir · 40°C intake certified
Memory & Storage
DIMM Slots32× DDR5 · up to 5600 MT/s
Max Memory4 TB RDIMM · 8 TB LRDIMM
NVMe Bays10× E1.S or 8× 2.5" U.2/U.3 Gen5
Boot2× M.2 NVMe RAID
RAIDBroadcom 96xx · optional BBU
Networking & Fabric
OCP 3.0 Slot1× · up to 400GbE
PCIe Slots2× FHHL Gen5 · 1× LP
Management NICDedicated 1GbE BMC
Fabric Options25/100/200/400GbE · InfiniBand HDR
Power & Management
PSU2× 1600W Titanium redundant · hot-swap
Input200–240V AC · 380V DC option
BMCT18 BMC · Redfish 1.16 · Sovereign FW
SecuritySilicon Root of Trust · Confidential Compute
03 — Deployment Use Cases

Where the R1 earns its rack unit.

U.01

Private Cloud Compute

The fabric compute node for OpenStack, Nutanix and VMware deployments across GCC sovereign clouds.

U.02

Web & App Tier

Dense front-tier hosting for banking, government portals, and enterprise SaaS backends.

U.03

Container Fabric

K8s and OpenShift worker pools, with predictable per-core cost across a homogeneous cluster.

U.04

VDI & Session Hosts

High session-density hosting for government and BFSI virtual desktop deployments.

U.05

Database Secondaries

Read replicas, warm standby, and analytical secondary nodes.

U.06

Regional DR Sites

Pair with S4 storage for validated cross-emirate disaster recovery.

Ready to spec the R1 for your rack?

04 — Related Platforms

The rest of the lineup.