1. A vehicle headlamp comprising:
a multiple number of LED light sources and at least one optical unit upstream of the LED sources,
said LED light sources being arranged in groups with one group of LED light sources being configured to generate a specified light distribution,
said LED light sources within one group of LED light sources being of equal size,
said LED light sources within said one group of LED light sources andor the optical unit have illumination characteristics such that said group of LED light sources fulfills at least one specified lighting function in the vehicle environment, whereby light spots are produced with a vertical andor horizontal critical angle within the range of between 0.2\xb0 and 1\xb0.
2. The headlamp as defined in claim 1, further comprising said LED light sources being arranged in several horizontal and vertical rows on a shared substrate to create an LED field, whereby at least one row of LED light sources is arranged in a horizontal row (a) of light spots to perform a specified lighting function.
3. The headlamp as defined in claim 1, further comprising a control mechanism configured such that a first row of LED light sources can produce a horizontal row of light spots to perform a highway lighting function and a second row of LED light sources can produce another horizontal row of light spots, said second row being located immediately below the other horizontal row of light spots.
4. The headlamp as defined in claim 1 further comprising said LED light sources andor the optical unit produce light spots with a horizontal and vertical critical angle of 0.28\xb0.
5. The headlamp as defined in claim 1, further comprising a quotient of vertical rows of LED light sources and horizontal rows of LED light sources larger than four, one row of LED light sources being arranged in such a way that it produces a row of light spots in a vertical angle range of between \u22120.28\xb0 and \u22120.57\xb0.
6. The headlamp as defined in claim 1, further comprising said LED light sources of said first group of LED light sources each demonstrate a first dimension, which is arranged together with a second group of LED light sources on the same substrate,
a second group of LED light sources having LED light sources, each of said light sources of said second group demonstrating a second dimension, such that the quotient from the dimension of the LED light sources in the first group to the dimension of the LED light sources in the second group is less than one.
7. The headlamp as defined in claim 1, further comprising a second group of LED light sources on the LED field said second group of LED light sources being arranged as a matrix in horizontal and vertical direction, such that large light spots are primarily produced above a horizontal (H) on a measuring screen.
8. The headlamp as defined in claim 6 further comprising said first group of LED light sources only comprising one or two rows of LED light sources, such that one or two rows of light spots are produced beneath the horizontal (H) on a measuring screen.
9. The headlamp as defined in claim 6 further comprising said optical unit being located upstream of both said first group of LED light sources and said second group of LED light sources.
10. The headlamp as defined in claim 1 further comprising: at least one additional LED light source being provided to generate a basic light distribution function that can be superposed on lighting functions performed by the first group of LED light sources andor the second group of LED light sources.
11. A vehicle headlamp comprising:
a multiple number of LED light sources and at least one optical unit upstream of the LED sources,
said LED light sources being arranged in groups with a first group of LED light sources being configured to generate a specified light distribution,
said LED light sources within each group of LED light sources being of equal size,
said LED light sources within said first group of LED light sources, either with or without said optical unit, fulfilling at least one lighting function in the vehicle environment and a second group of LED light sources fulfilling at least one other lighting function in the vehicle environment.
12. The vehicle head lamp of claim 11 further comprising said LED light sources producing light spots with a vertical andor horizontal critical angle within the range of between 0.2\xb0 and 1\xb0.
13. The vehicle headlamp of claim 11 wherein said first lighting function is a dipped beam and said second lighting function is a high beam.
14. The vehicle headlamp of claim 11 further comprising said LED light sources being in horizontal and vertical rows, with a quotient of horizontal to vertical rows being greater than four.
15. The vehicle headlamp of claim 11 further comprising said LED light sources being in at least one row, said row producing light spots in a vertical angle range of \u22120.28\xb0 and \u22120.57\xb0.
16. The vehicle headlamp of claim 11 further comprising said second group of LED light sources producing light spots above a horizontal H on a measuring screen, said light spots above the horizontal being larger than light spots produced below the horizontal.
17. The vehicle headlamp of claim 11 further comprising said first group of LED light sources and said second group of LED light sources being on the same array of LED light sources.
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 storage system, comprising:
a plurality of disk control devices having a plurality of physical disks connected via a network to a management server managing the plurality of physical disks allocated to a virtual machine,
wherein the plurality of disk control devices:
manage a specified storage area provided by the plurality of physical disks as one or more logical volumes, and
map the one or more logical volumes complying with a storage policy or storage policies, which include capacity information about the virtual machine and are preset to construct the virtual machine, to a virtual volume or volumes provided to the virtual machine in response to a request from the management server,
wherein when one of the storage policies is selected, the management server constructs the virtual machine by associating the virtual volume or volumes, which comply with the storage policy, with the virtual machine,
wherein when the storage policy includes information indicating that a remote copy is to be performed between a local site, which is a copy source of the storage system, and a remote site which is a copy destination of the storage system, the plurality of disk control devices map a first specified number of logical volumes among the plurality of logical volumes, to a virtual volume at the local site and map a second specified number of logical volumes to a virtual volume at the remote site according to a remote copy type included in the storage policy, and
wherein the second specified number of the logical volumes mapped to the virtual volume at the remote site is less than the first specified number of the logical volumes mapped to the virtual volume at the local site.
2. The storage system according to claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of disk control devices:
manages data input to and output from one or more physical volumes;
assigns identification information capable of identifying the plurality of disk control devices, to the plurality of logical volumes composed of the specified area of the plurality of physical volumes; and
maps the plurality of logical volumes managed across the plurality of disk control devices to one of the virtual volumes.
3. The storage system according to claim 1, wherein when information indicative of IO performance is set to the storage policy,
the plurality of disk control devices map the logical volume, which satisfies the IO performance set to the storage policy, to the virtual volume in response to a request from the management server.
4. The storage system according to claim 3, wherein when information indicative of a device type of the virtual volume is set to the storage policy, and
the plurality of disk control devices map the logical volumes for the plurality of disk control devices having different performances for a leading area of the virtual volume and for other areas in response to a request from the management server.
5. The storage system according to claim 4, wherein one of the disk control devices maps the logical volumes associated with the physical volume with high performance to the leading area of the virtual volume and the other disk control devices map the logical volumes associated with the physical volume which does not have high performance to an area of the virtual volume other than the leading area.
6. The storage system according to claim 3, wherein
the plurality of disk control devices map the plurality of logical volumes with a relative small capacity, which each of the plurality of disk control devices has, to the virtual volume in response to a request from the management server.
7. (canceled)
8. The storage system according to claim 1, wherein when the remote copy type included in the storage policy is set to high-speed, indicative of performance of the remote copy at a high speed,
the plurality of disk control devices configure the logical volumes mapped to the virtual volume at the local site the same as a configuration of the logical volumes mapped to the virtual volume at the remote site.
9. The storage system according to claim 1, wherein when the remote copy type included in the storage policy is set to medium-speed, indicative of performance of the remote copy at a medium speed,
the plurality of disk control devices map the logical volumes whose device type is the same as the logical volumes mapped to the virtual volume at the local site, to the virtual volume at the remote site in response to a request from the management server.
10. (canceled)
11. The storage system according to claim 1, wherein when the remote copy type included in the storage policy is set to low-speed, indicative of performance of the remote copy at a low speed,
the plurality of disk control devices map the logical volume or volumes with low performance to the virtual volume at the remote site.
12. The storage system according to claim 1, wherein when information indicative of an upper limit andor lower limit of IO performance is set to the storage policy, the plurality of disk control devices map the logical volume or volumes, which satisfy the upper limit andor lower limit of the IO performance, to the virtual volume in response to a request from the management server, and
wherein when IO performance of the virtual volume no longer satisfies the upper limit andor lower limit of the IO performance, which is set to the storage policy, the logical volume which satisfies the upper limit andor lower limit of the IO performance is mapped, instead of the logical volume associated with the virtual volume, to the virtual volume.
13. (canceled)