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 f2dfc4ceb8b..6b38856e4b7 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
@@ -785,7 +785,7 @@ public class LibvirtComputingResource extends ServerResourceBase implements Serv
 
         _localStorageUUID = (String)params.get("local.storage.uuid");
         if (_localStorageUUID == null) {
-            _localStorageUUID = UUID.nameUUIDFromBytes(_localStoragePath.getBytes()).toString();
+            _localStorageUUID = UUID.randomUUID().toString();
         }
 
         value = (String)params.get("scripts.timeout");