Supermicro AS-1116R-FN4 Short Depth Server

A short-depth 1U AMD EPYC 4005 server with room for real storage, built to consolidate a branch or back-office onto one rack-mountable box that fits a shallow cabinet.

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Sirap, your Malta partner for Supermicro, with local specification, installation, service and support.

What the AS-1116R-FN4 is for

The AS-1116R-FN4 is the rackmount member of Supermicro’s AMD EPYC 4005 edge family: a short-depth 1U chassis with expanded storage capability, made to consolidate a branch office or a retail back-end onto a single, properly rack-mounted server. Short depth matters because branch and back-office racks are often shallow wall cabinets, not full data-centre racks, and a standard-depth server simply will not fit. This is the box for a site that has a small rack and needs more than an appliance: file and application services, local virtualisation, and inference close to the data, in a footprint that suits the room. It is part of the branch tier in our guide to on-premise AI compute.

Who it is for

It suits the branch and regional sites of finance and iGaming operators, and any multi-site business consolidating a back-office onto one maintainable server. Where a site has no rack at all and needs only an appliance or POS box, the 2.5-litre AS-E300-14GR is the smaller sibling; where local GPU acceleration is the requirement, see the AS-3015TR-i4 tower.

Key features

Fits a shallow rack. A short-depth 1U chassis mounts in the wall cabinets and half-depth racks that branch and back-office sites actually have, where a standard server overhangs.

Storage where you need it. Expanded storage capability lets one box consolidate the files, applications and data a branch would otherwise spread across several machines.

Secure and remotely managed. TPM 2.0 and AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization protect data at sites without dedicated security staff, and IPMI 2.0 out-of-band management means the server is administered and recovered remotely.

Efficient EPYC 4005 platform. AMD “Zen 5” cores with a platform TDP from 65W, DDR5 and PCIe Gen5 keep performance high and running costs and heat low in a confined comms room.

Technical specifications

Specifications confirmed from the Supermicro AMD EPYC 4005 launch and the EPYC 4000 series product page. Exact processor, memory and drive configuration is built to order; Sirap confirms the build against the current datasheet as part of the quote, rather than listing figures it cannot stand behind.

What is in scope from Sirap

For the AS-1116R-FN4 the work is consolidation done cleanly: we plan what a branch’s separate machines collapse into one server, configure the storage and any local virtualisation, harden the box and its management network for an unstaffed site, and mount it correctly in whatever shallow rack the site actually has. Then we support it from Malta, so a branch server is inside a local maintenance relationship rather than a warranty card in a drawer.

Often paired with

• The AS-E300-14GR for the smallest sites and the AS-3015TR-i4 where a site needs a GPU.
• A rack Eaton UPS sized for the cabinet, with remote monitoring so a branch outage is visible centrally.
• Central Supermicro compute and DataCore storage that the branch servers replicate to.

Could this be grant-funded?

Consolidating and modernising branch infrastructure is a digitisation project that can fit Malta Enterprise support such as the Digitalise Your SME grant. Eligibility depends on the project. Read our guide and see if your project qualifies, or talk to a Sirap engineer.

Frequently asked questions

Why short depth, and does it matter?
Branch and back-office racks are frequently shallow wall cabinets. A short-depth chassis fits them where a standard-depth server overhangs or will not close the cabinet, which is the whole reason this model exists.

Can one of these replace several older branch machines?
That is its purpose. With expanded storage and EPYC 4005 cores it can host the files, applications and light virtualisation a branch previously spread across separate boxes, which is easier to secure and to support.

How is it managed if there is no one technical on site?
Over IPMI 2.0 out-of-band management. We administer, update and recover it remotely, and the TPM and SEV features keep the data protected on an unattended box.

Talk to a Sirap engineer

Tell us what a site currently runs and the rack you have to fit, and we will specify the consolidation, build it, mount it and support it from Malta.

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