diff --git a/cloudcontrol/node/hypervisor/domains/__init__.py b/cloudcontrol/node/hypervisor/domains/__init__.py
index 50f77fe7cef0209805d23d938ce59774a0bf5748..38d2d8fec651d9014c0677b2bbeddf48818382d8 100644
--- a/cloudcontrol/node/hypervisor/domains/__init__.py
+++ b/cloudcontrol/node/hypervisor/domains/__init__.py
@@ -75,7 +75,8 @@ class VirtualMachine(object):
                 Tag('disk%s_path' % i, v.path, 10),
                 Tag('disk%s_pool' % i, v.storage.name, 10),  # FIXME: change
                 Tag('disk%s_vol' % i, v.name, 10),
-                Tag('disk%s_cache' % i, lambda: self.cache_behaviour.get(v.path), 10)
+                Tag('disk%s_cache' % i, lambda: self.cache_behaviour.get(v.path), 10),
+                Tag('disk%s_shared' % i, lambda: {True: 'yes', False: 'no'}[v.storage.is_shared])
             ):
                 self.tag_db.add_tag(t)
 
diff --git a/cloudcontrol/node/hypervisor/lib.py b/cloudcontrol/node/hypervisor/lib.py
index 0caa4e03be439bd385b2eb18c1adbb785a160400..76204be8aebc18cca8e29bd5182b8a5ec42da108 100644
--- a/cloudcontrol/node/hypervisor/lib.py
+++ b/cloudcontrol/node/hypervisor/lib.py
@@ -411,6 +411,9 @@ class StorageIndex(object):
 
 class Storage(object):
     """Storage abstraction."""
+
+    SHARED_TYPES = ['rbd']
+
     def __init__(self, lv_storage):
         """
         :param lv_storage: Libvirt pool storage instance
@@ -428,6 +431,10 @@ class Storage(object):
         self.volumes = {}
         self.update()
 
+    @property
+    def is_shared(self):
+        return True if self.type in Storage.SHARED_TYPES else False
+
     def update(self):
         self.update_attr()