System and method for critical virtual machine protection

A method for facilitating restorations of virtual machines using backup/restoration policies, comprising:

• identifying a change of a label associated with a portion of data of a production host that hosts at least one virtual machine of the virtual machines, wherein the label specifies a characteristic ascribed to the data by a client that utilizes services provided by the virtual machine of the virtual machines, wherein the characteristic indicates a level of importance of the portion of the data to the client;
• in response to identifying the change in the label:
• performing a threat analysis, using the changed label, of a virtual machine of the virtual machines associated with the portion of data to determine a new security policy for the virtual machine;
• and
• updating a policy of the backup/restoration policies associated with the virtual machine based on the new security policy,
• wherein the updated policy specifies that a first quantity of computing resources are to be used to generate a backup of the portion of the data, the policy specifies that a second quantity of the computing resource are to be used to generate the backup of the portion of the data, and the first quantity is different from the second quantity.

A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising computer readable program code, which when executed by a computer processor enables the computer processor to perform a method for facilitating restorations of virtual, the method comprising:

• identifying a change of a label associated with a portion of data of a production host that hosts at least one virtual machine of the virtual machines, wherein the label specifies a characteristic ascribed to the data by a client that utilizes services provided by the virtual machine of the virtual machines, wherein the characteristic indicates a level of importance of the portion of the data to the client;
• in response to identifying the change in the label:
• performing a threat analysis, using the changed label, of a virtual machine of the virtual machines associated with the data to determine a new security policy for the virtual machine;
• and
• updating a policy of the backup/restoration policies associated with the virtual machine based on the new security policy,
• wherein the updated policy specifies that a first quantity of computing resources are to be used to generate a backup of the portion of the data, the policy specifies that a second quantity of the computing resource are to be used to generate the backup of the portion of the data, and the first quantity is different from the second quantity.