diff --git a/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/storage/LibvirtStorageAdaptor.java b/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/storage/LibvirtStorageAdaptor.java
index ea3e1d6016d..86176d27956 100644
--- a/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/storage/LibvirtStorageAdaptor.java
+++ b/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/storage/LibvirtStorageAdaptor.java
@@ -1080,6 +1080,13 @@ public class LibvirtStorageAdaptor implements StorageAdaptor {
 
                         rbd.clone(template.getName(), this.rbdTemplateSnapName, io, disk.getName(), this.rbdFeatures, this.rbdOrder);
                         s_logger.debug("Succesfully cloned " + template.getName() + "@" + this.rbdTemplateSnapName + " to " + disk.getName());
+                        /* We also need to resize the image if the VM was deployed with a larger root disk size */
+                        if (disk.getVirtualSize() > template.getVirtualSize()) {
+                            RbdImage diskImage = rbd.open(disk.getName());
+                            diskImage.resize(disk.getVirtualSize());
+                            rbd.close(diskImage);
+                            s_logger.debug("Resized " + disk.getName() + " to " + disk.getVirtualSize());
+                        }
                     }
 
                     rbd.close(srcImage);