diff --git a/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/resource/LibvirtComputingResource.java b/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/resource/LibvirtComputingResource.java
index 1dc1955c2e1..7624034b1b3 100755
--- a/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/resource/LibvirtComputingResource.java
+++ b/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/resource/LibvirtComputingResource.java
@@ -2654,7 +2654,7 @@ public class LibvirtComputingResource extends ServerResourceBase implements Serv
 
     protected GetStorageStatsAnswer execute(final GetStorageStatsCommand cmd) {
         try {
-            KVMStoragePool sp = _storagePoolMgr.getStoragePool(cmd.getPooltype(), cmd.getStorageId());
+            KVMStoragePool sp = _storagePoolMgr.getStoragePool(cmd.getPooltype(), cmd.getStorageId(), true);
             return new GetStorageStatsAnswer(cmd, sp.getCapacity(), sp.getUsed());
         } catch (CloudRuntimeException e) {
             return new GetStorageStatsAnswer(cmd, e.toString());
diff --git a/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/storage/IscsiAdmStorageAdaptor.java b/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/storage/IscsiAdmStorageAdaptor.java
index 2ea17e79143..f7a8cf715d0 100644
--- a/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/storage/IscsiAdmStorageAdaptor.java
+++ b/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/storage/IscsiAdmStorageAdaptor.java
@@ -52,6 +52,11 @@ public class IscsiAdmStorageAdaptor implements StorageAdaptor {
         return MapStorageUuidToStoragePool.get(uuid);
     }
 
+    @Override
+    public KVMStoragePool getStoragePool(String uuid, boolean refreshInfo) {
+        return MapStorageUuidToStoragePool.get(uuid);
+    }
+
     @Override
     public boolean deleteStoragePool(String uuid) {
         return MapStorageUuidToStoragePool.remove(uuid) != null;
diff --git a/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/storage/KVMStoragePoolManager.java b/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/storage/KVMStoragePoolManager.java
index ab819b25729..583db0f4a36 100644
--- a/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/storage/KVMStoragePoolManager.java
+++ b/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/storage/KVMStoragePoolManager.java
@@ -195,11 +195,15 @@ public class KVMStoragePoolManager {
     }
 
     public KVMStoragePool getStoragePool(StoragePoolType type, String uuid) {
+        return this.getStoragePool(type, uuid, false);
+    }
+
+    public KVMStoragePool getStoragePool(StoragePoolType type, String uuid, boolean refreshInfo) {
 
         StorageAdaptor adaptor = getStorageAdaptor(type);
         KVMStoragePool pool = null;
         try {
-            pool = adaptor.getStoragePool(uuid);
+            pool = adaptor.getStoragePool(uuid, refreshInfo);
         } catch (Exception e) {
             StoragePoolInformation info = _storagePools.get(uuid);
             if (info != null) {
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 ffd44230d3f..26237ba69b2 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
@@ -338,6 +338,11 @@ public class LibvirtStorageAdaptor implements StorageAdaptor {
 
     @Override
     public KVMStoragePool getStoragePool(String uuid) {
+        return this.getStoragePool(uuid, false);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public KVMStoragePool getStoragePool(String uuid, boolean refreshInfo) {
         s_logger.debug("Trying to fetch storage pool " + uuid + " from libvirt");
         StoragePool storage = null;
         try {
@@ -383,7 +388,21 @@ public class LibvirtStorageAdaptor implements StorageAdaptor {
                 }
             }
 
-            pool.refresh();
+            /**
+             * On large (RBD) storage pools it can take up to a couple of minutes
+             * for libvirt to refresh the pool.
+             *
+             * Refreshing a storage pool means that libvirt will have to iterate the whole pool
+             * and fetch information of each volume in there
+             *
+             * It is not always required to refresh a pool. So we can control if we want to or not
+             *
+             * By default only the getStorageStats call in the LibvirtComputingResource will ask to
+             * refresh the pool
+             */
+            if (refreshInfo) {
+                pool.refresh();
+            }
             pool.setCapacity(storage.getInfo().capacity);
             pool.setUsed(storage.getInfo().allocation);
             pool.setAvailable(storage.getInfo().available);
diff --git a/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/storage/StorageAdaptor.java b/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/storage/StorageAdaptor.java
index 38ee3e6ed94..dceb2910c57 100644
--- a/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/storage/StorageAdaptor.java
+++ b/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/storage/StorageAdaptor.java
@@ -28,6 +28,9 @@ public interface StorageAdaptor {
 
     public KVMStoragePool getStoragePool(String uuid);
 
+    // Get the storage pool from libvirt, but control if libvirt should refresh the pool (can take a long time)
+    public KVMStoragePool getStoragePool(String uuid, boolean refreshInfo);
+
     // given disk path (per database) and pool, create new KVMPhysicalDisk, populate
     // it with info from local disk, and return it
     public KVMPhysicalDisk getPhysicalDisk(String volumeUuid, KVMStoragePool pool);