1. A storage system comprising:
a host apparatus inputting and outputting requests for data;
a migration source storage apparatus capable of being recognized from the host apparatus, having one or more logical units correlated to storage regions of physical devices for storing the data;
a migration destination storage apparatus having one or more logical units of a migration destination capable of being recognized from the host apparatus;
an editing unit for editing configuration control information relating to the logical unit(s) for the migration source so as to match with settings for the migration destination storage apparatus;
an importing unit for importing edited configuration control information that is the configuration control information edited to the migration destination storage apparatus; and
a mapping unit for mapping the logical unit(s) of the migration source to the logical unit(s) of the migration destination.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A compressed data optical imager system comprising:
a movable reflecting optical device to reflect an optical image;
a controllable agile frontend imaging optics to provide an electronically controlled variable focal length optical path to pass the reflected optical image toward a digital micromirror device, the digital micromirror device reflecting a +\u03b8 optical beam and a \u22120 optical beam;
a +\u03b8 optical beam path and a \u2212\u03b8 optical beam path to detect the +\u03b8 optical beam and \u2212\u03b8 optical beams at two different wavelength bands;
a microprocessor based controller to execute a set of instructions to control the movable reflecting optical device and agile frontend imaging optics and receive an electronic image signal corresponding to a detected +\u03b8 optical beam and \u2212\u03b8 optical beams at the two different wavelength bands.
2. The system of claim 1 wherein the agile frontend imaging optics comprises:
a movable reflecting optical device to reflect an input optical image; and
an imaging lens serially coupled with an electronically controlled variable focus lens that provides a variable focal length by electronic control.
3. The system of claim 1 wherein the +\u03b8 optical beam path and \u2212\u03b8 optical beam path each comprise:
a first beamsplitter to separate the +\u03b8 optical beam at a first wavelength from the +\u03b8 optical beam at a second different wavelength;
a second beamsplitter to separate the \u2212\u03b8 optical beams at a first wavelength from the \u2212\u03b8 optical beams at a second different wavelength; and
a first and second photodetector to detect each of the +\u03b8 optical beam and \u2212\u03b8 optical beams at the first wavelength and the +\u03b8 optical beam \u2212\u03b8 optical beams at the second different wavelength and produce the electronic image signal in response to the detection.
4. The system of claim 3 wherein the photodetector in each of the +\u03b8 optical beam path and \u2212\u03b8 optical beam path comprises:
a single or point photodetector that detects single pixel optical data from the corresponding first wavelength +\u03b8 optical beam or the \u2212\u03b8 optical beams; and
a multi-detector image sensing path having a multi-detector imaging sensor to detect a subset of the digital micromirror device image data from the corresponding second wavelength +\u03b8 optical beam or \u2212\u03b8 optical beam.
5. The system of claim 4 wherein the multi-detector sensing path comprises:
an imaging lens to transmit the corresponding second wavelength +\u03b8 or \u2212\u03b8 optical beam via a beam path mirror set where control of two mirror tilt angles of the mirror set physically translates the digital micromirror device selected optical image in two dimensions to place the selected optical image over a multi-detector imaging sensor.
6. The system of claim 5 wherein the microprocessor based controller controls a binary state micromirror tilt angle in time to control a selected image pixel detector integration time for a fixed integration time multi-detector imaging sensor.
7. The system of claim 1 wherein the digital micromirror device operates in a single pixel serial-scan mode for high dynamic range processing and smart sensing.
8. The system of claim 7 wherein the microprocessor based controller controls time modulation of an onoff state of the digital micromirror device micromirrors in the single pixel serial scan mode to control a time duration of the on state light incident on the multi-detector imaging sensor to improve a dynamic range of the compressed data optical imager.
9. The system of claim 1 wherein the digital micromirror device operates in a multiple-pixel parallel mode for parallel image processing wherein when a selected subset of an original image on the digital micromirror device is selected and observed by the multi-detector imaging sensor for high speed parallel scan operations with image data compression.
10. The system of claim 1 wherein the microprocessor based controller controls time modulation of an onoff state of the digital micromirror device micromirrors in the multiple-pixel parallel mode to control a time duration of the on state light incident on the multi-detector imaging sensor to improve a dynamic range of the compressed data optical imager.
11. The system of claim 1 wherein the set of instructions includes a first subset of instructions to introduce a relative time delay amongst the photo-detected electrical signals in to study a time scanned optical irradiance data from the image to deduce image effects.
12. The system of claim 1 wherein the set of instructions includes a second subset of instructions to control the digital micromirror device as a 1\xd72 freespace optical switch to activivate one or more detection ports of the multi-detector imaging sensor and select a wavelength of operation of the selected for operation of the multi-detector image sensing path.