Patent ID: 9461873
Filing Date: 2016-10-04
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method of setting up a datacenter, comprising: determining, by a management computing device, for each datacenter component in a plurality of datacenter components in a datacenter, a criticality level that indicates an importance of the datacenter component with respect to the datacenter, the criticality level determined automatically based on a service provided by the datacenter component and on a relative connectivity to other datacenter components, the relative connectivity comprising a logical relationship between the datacenter components; assigning, by the management computing device, layers to the plurality of datacenter components in the datacenter, such that each layer comprises datacenter components having the same criticality level; arranging, by the management computing device, at least some of the datacenter components that are in the plurality and that are assigned to at least one layer of the layers in an area of the datacenter; and applying, by the management computing device, a security policy to the area to limit access only to approved users, the security policy preventing unauthorized access to the datacenter components in the area of the datacenter based at least in part on the criticality level assigned to the layer.