diff --git a/agent/src/main/java/com/cloud/agent/properties/AgentProperties.java b/agent/src/main/java/com/cloud/agent/properties/AgentProperties.java
index 75248fb01bf..610c5be759f 100644
--- a/agent/src/main/java/com/cloud/agent/properties/AgentProperties.java
+++ b/agent/src/main/java/com/cloud/agent/properties/AgentProperties.java
@@ -502,6 +502,15 @@ public class AgentProperties{
      */
     public static final Property<Integer> HOST_RESERVED_MEM_MB = new Property<>("host.reserved.mem.mb", 1024);
 
+    /**
+     * How many host CPUs to reserve for non-allocation.<br>
+     * This can be used to set aside CPU cores on the host for other tasks, such as running hyperconverged storage<br>
+     * processes, etc.
+     * Data type: Integer.<br>
+     * Default value: <code>0</code>
+     */
+    public static final Property<Integer> HOST_RESERVED_CPU_CORE_COUNT = new Property<>("host.reserved.cpu.count", 0);
+
     /**
      * The model of Watchdog timer to present to the Guest.<br>
      * For all models refer to the libvirt documentation.<br>
diff --git a/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/main/java/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/resource/LibvirtComputingResource.java b/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/main/java/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/resource/LibvirtComputingResource.java
index fe4ef5821ed..0f32fae934a 100644
--- a/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/main/java/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/resource/LibvirtComputingResource.java
+++ b/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/main/java/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/resource/LibvirtComputingResource.java
@@ -1064,8 +1064,7 @@ public class LibvirtComputingResource extends ServerResourceBase implements Serv
         // Reserve 1GB unless admin overrides
         _dom0MinMem = ByteScaleUtils.mebibytesToBytes(AgentPropertiesFileHandler.getPropertyValue(AgentProperties.HOST_RESERVED_MEM_MB));
 
-        value = (String)params.get("host.reserved.cpu.count");
-        _dom0MinCpuCores = NumbersUtil.parseInt(value, 0);
+        _dom0MinCpuCores = AgentPropertiesFileHandler.getPropertyValue(AgentProperties.HOST_RESERVED_CPU_CORE_COUNT);
 
         // Support overcommit memory for host if host uses ZSWAP, KSM and other memory
         // compressing technologies