diff --git a/api/src/com/cloud/api/commands/UploadVolumeCmd.java b/api/src/com/cloud/api/commands/UploadVolumeCmd.java
index 6bebac726aa..7a2aeb33e09 100755
--- a/api/src/com/cloud/api/commands/UploadVolumeCmd.java
+++ b/api/src/com/cloud/api/commands/UploadVolumeCmd.java
@@ -1,16 +1,14 @@
 package com.cloud.api.commands;
-import java.util.List;
 
 import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
 
 import com.cloud.api.ApiConstants;
-import com.cloud.api.BaseAsyncCreateCmd;
+import com.cloud.api.BaseAsyncCmd;
 import com.cloud.api.BaseCmd;
 import com.cloud.api.IdentityMapper;
 import com.cloud.api.Implementation;
 import com.cloud.api.Parameter;
 import com.cloud.api.ServerApiException;
-import com.cloud.api.response.ListResponse;
 import com.cloud.api.response.VolumeResponse;
 import com.cloud.event.EventTypes;
 import com.cloud.exception.ConcurrentOperationException;
@@ -22,7 +20,7 @@ import com.cloud.storage.Volume;
 import com.cloud.user.UserContext;
 
 @Implementation(description="Uploads a data disk.", responseObject=VolumeResponse.class)
-public class UploadVolumeCmd extends BaseCmd {
+public class UploadVolumeCmd extends BaseAsyncCmd {
 	public static final Logger s_logger = Logger.getLogger(UploadVolumeCmd.class.getName());
     private static final String s_name = "uploadvolumeresponse";
 	
@@ -120,4 +118,14 @@ public class UploadVolumeCmd extends BaseCmd {
         return accountId;
 	}
 
+	@Override
+	public String getEventDescription() {
+		return  "uploading volume: " + getVolumeName() + " in the zone " + getZoneId(); 		
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public String getEventType() {
+        return EventTypes.EVENT_VOLUME_UPLOAD;
+	}
+
 }
diff --git a/server/src/com/cloud/storage/StorageManagerImpl.java b/server/src/com/cloud/storage/StorageManagerImpl.java
index 74ccd6f01af..f8ad65cc9b4 100755
--- a/server/src/com/cloud/storage/StorageManagerImpl.java
+++ b/server/src/com/cloud/storage/StorageManagerImpl.java
@@ -1686,13 +1686,12 @@ public class StorageManagerImpl implements StorageManager, Manager, ClusterManag
 
     
     /*
-     * Just allocate a volume in the database, don't send the createvolume cmd to hypervisor. The volume will be finally
-     * created
+     * Upload the volume to secondary storage.
      * 
      */
     @Override
     @DB
-    @ActionEvent(eventType = EventTypes.EVENT_VOLUME_UPLOAD, eventDescription = "creating volume", create = true)
+    @ActionEvent(eventType = EventTypes.EVENT_VOLUME_UPLOAD, eventDescription = "uploading volume", async = true)
     public VolumeVO uploadVolume(UploadVolumeCmd cmd) throws ResourceAllocationException{
     	Account caller = UserContext.current().getCaller();
         long ownerId = cmd.getEntityOwnerId();
@@ -1704,8 +1703,7 @@ public class StorageManagerImpl implements StorageManager, Manager, ClusterManag
     	validateVolume(caller, ownerId, zoneId, volumeName, url, format);
     	VolumeVO volume = persistVolume(caller, ownerId, zoneId, volumeName, url, cmd.getFormat());
     	_downloadMonitor.downloadVolumeToStorage(volume, zoneId, url, cmd.getChecksum(), ImageFormat.valueOf(format.toUpperCase()));
-		return volume;
-    	
+		return volume;    	
     }
     
     private boolean validateVolume(Account caller, long ownerId, Long zoneId, String volumeName, String url, String format) throws ResourceAllocationException{