diff --git a/doc/source/adminref/quick_start.rst b/doc/source/adminref/quick_start.rst
index 4371f1270c..730f0f66d5 100644
--- a/doc/source/adminref/quick_start.rst
+++ b/doc/source/adminref/quick_start.rst
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ Open Manila configuration file `/etc/manila/manila.conf`::
     [DATABASE]
     # Set up MySQL connection. In following  ‘foo’ is username,
     # ‘bar’ is password and ‘quuz’ is host name or address:
-    connection = mysql://foo:bar@quuz/manila?charset=utf8
+    connection = mysql+pymysql://foo:bar@quuz/manila?charset=utf8
 
     [oslo_concurrency]
     # Following opt defines directory to be used for lock files creation.
diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index 1378eeef2e..639f2f0841 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ ddt>=0.7.0
 discover
 fixtures>=0.3.14
 mock>=1.0
-MySQL-python
+PyMySQL>=0.6.2  # MIT License
 oslotest>=1.5.1  # Apache-2.0
 oslosphinx>=2.5.0  # Apache-2.0
 psycopg2