1. A method of processing virtual machine objects through a workflow having a plurality of ordered steps in a computer system, comprising: executing the workflow on computing resources of the computer system using the virtual machine objects as parametric input, where the computing resources: divide the virtual machine objects into workgroups; perform instances of a step of the workflow in parallel on the workgroups as the workgroups complete a prior step in the workflow; and execute an agent to delegate the workgroups to, and receive results from, the instances of the step as the workflow is executed wherein the workflow comprises a recovery workflow to recover the virtual machine objects from protected computing resources in the computer system to recovery computing resources in the computer system, and wherein each workgroup comprises a plurality of datastores sharing an associated priority.