Patent ID: 11868498
Assignee: PURE STORAGE, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 1:
2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
identifying, by one storage unit of the storage units, a subset of other storage units of the storage network, wherein the one storage unit and the subset of other storage units comprise a set of storage units of the storage network that store the set of encoded data slices, wherein the set of encoded data slices are associated with a storage vault;
determining, by the one storage unit, that a number of available storage units in the set of storage units is greater than the decode threshold number based on an update status of the set of storage units; and
updating, by the one storage unit, respective software of the set of storage units including the respective software of the one storage unit itself, while maintaining availability of the decode threshold number of the storage units of the set of storage units to service access requests to the data segment encoded in the set of encoded data slices.