1. A method, comprising: detecting, by a management processor, multiple sets of storage objects stored in a data facility comprising multiple server racks, each of the server racks comprising a plurality of server computers, each of the storage objects in each given set being stored in separate server racks and comprising one or more data objects and one or more protection objects for the given set; identifying, by the management processor, in a given server rack, a specified number of the storage objects, each of the identified storage objects being stored in separate server computers; identifying by the management processor, one or more server computers in the given server rack not storing any of the identified storage objects; and creating and managing, by the management processor, in the identified one or more server computers, an additional protection object for the identified storage objects, wherein the additional protection object comprises erasure correction codes for corresponding contents of each of the identified storage objects.