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 486b9e16dcb..0d441095c70 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
@@ -738,7 +738,7 @@ ServerResource {
 
         _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");