How to Enable SRIOV of IBM Servers and Blade Servers BIOS

What is SR-IOV? The short answer is that SR-IOV is a specification that allows a PCIe device to appear to be multiple separate physical PCIe devices. The SR-IOV specification was created and is maintained by the PCI SIG, with the idea that a standard specification will help promote interoperability.

Step 1: Power on the system, and press F1 to enter the Setup utility.
Step 2: Select System Settings and then Network.
Step 3: Under the Network Device List, select the device to be configured and press Enter to see all the Network Device options (Figure 1).

Step 4: Select the device’s description and press Enter to configure the device 
Step 5: From the selection menu, select Advanced Mode and press Enter to change the value.
Step 6: Choose Enable and press Enter.
Step 7: On the same selection menu, select Controller Configuration and press Enter to enter the configuration menu.
Step 8: Select Configure SRIOV and hit Enter.
Step 9: On the Configure SRIOV page, press Enter to toggle the values
Step 10: Select Enable and press Enter
Step 11: Select Save Current Configurations and press Enter.
Step 12: Press Esc to exit the menu. Then, click Save to save the configuration.
Step 13: Reboot the system.

Setting up an SSL secured Webserver with CentOS

1. Getting the required software
For an SSL encrypted web server you will need a few things. Depending on your install you may or may not have OpenSSL and mod_ssl, Apache's interface to OpenSSL. Use yum to get them if you need them.
# yum install mod_ssl openssl
Yum will either tell you they are installed or will install them for you.
2. Generate a self-signed certificate
Using OpenSSL we will generate a self-signed certificate. If you are using this on a production server you are probably likely to want a key from Trusted Certificate Authority, but if you are just using this on a personal site or for testing purposes a self-signed certificate is fine. To create the key you will need to be root so you can either su to root or use sudo in front of the commands
# Generate private key 
openssl genrsa -out ca.key 1024 
# Generate CSR 
openssl req -new -key ca.key -out ca.csr
# Generate Self Signed Key
openssl x509 -req -days 365 -in ca.csr -signkey ca.key -out ca.crt
# Move the files to the correct locations
# mv ca.crt /etc/pki/tls/certs
# mv ca.key /etc/pki/tls/private/ca.key
# mv ca.csr /etc/pki/tls/private/ca.csr
Then we need to update the Apache SSL configuration file
# vi +/SSLCertificateFile /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf
Change the paths to match where the Key file is stored. If you've used the method above it will be
SSLCertificateFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca.crt
Then set the correct path for the Certificate Key File a few lines below. If you've followed the instructions above it is:
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/pki/tls/private/ca.key
Quit and save the file and then restart Apache
# /etc/init.d/httpd restart
All being well you should now be able to connect over https to your server and see a default Centos page. As the certificate is self signed browsers will generally ask you whether you want to accept the certificate. Firefox 3 won't let you connect at all but you can override this.
Restart Apache again using 
# /etc/init.d/httpd restart