Patent ID: 8601307

Claim:
A method comprising: providing a persistent common view of a virtual shared storage system, wherein the virtual shared storage system comprises a first shared storage system and a second shared storage system, and wherein the persistent common view includes information associated with data and instructions stored at the first shared storage system and the second shared storage system; receiving a request from a requesting device to access a first service provided via the first shared storage system, and wherein the first service corresponds to a first set of instructions stored at the first shared storage system; retrieving the first set of instructions from the first shared storage system; transmitting the first set of instructions to the requesting device, wherein the first set of instructions are executable by the requesting device to provide the first service; and modifying the first service during execution of the first set of instructions at the requesting device, wherein modifying the first service does not interrupt the first service provided during the execution of the first set of instructions at the requesting device.