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Allocating storage units in a dispersed storage network

  • US 9,207,870 B2
  • Filed: 06/13/2014
  • Issued: 12/08/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/30/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for execution by one or more processing modules of one or more computing devices of a dispersed storage network (DSN), the method comprises:

  • detecting a new storage unit within the DSN;

    determining to affiliate the new storage unit with a virtual memory vault, wherein the virtual memory vault is mapped to a set of storage units of the DSN, wherein data objects are dispersed storage error encoded into pluralities of sets of encoded data slices that are stored in the set of storage units;

    determining virtual DSN addresses of the virtual memory vault to allocate the new storage unit; and

    updating vault information regarding the virtual memory vault to include the allocation of the virtual DSN addresses to the new storage unit.

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