diff --git a/deployment/ceph-ansible/ceph-base.yaml b/deployment/ceph-ansible/ceph-base.yaml
index f552c65db8..5cedd9f494 100644
--- a/deployment/ceph-ansible/ceph-base.yaml
+++ b/deployment/ceph-ansible/ceph-base.yaml
@@ -119,6 +119,9 @@ parameters:
   NovaRbdPoolName:
     default: vms
     type: string
+    description: The pool name for RBD backend ephemeral storage.
+    tags:
+      - role_specific
   CephClientKey:
     description: The Ceph client key. Can be created with ceph-authtool --gen-print-key.
     type: string
@@ -269,7 +272,10 @@ resources:
                           list_concat_unique:
                             - - {get_param: CinderRbdPoolName}
                               - {get_param: CinderBackupRbdPoolName}
-                              - {get_param: NovaRbdPoolName}
+                              - if:
+                                - equals: [{get_param: [RoleParameters, NovaRbdPoolName]}, '']
+                                - {get_param: NovaRbdPoolName}
+                                - {get_param: [RoleParameters, NovaRbdPoolName]}
                               - {get_param: GlanceRbdPoolName}
                             # CinderRbdExtraPools is a list (do not indent further)
                             - {get_param: CinderRbdExtraPools}
@@ -301,7 +307,10 @@ resources:
                         list_concat_unique:
                         - - {get_param: CinderRbdPoolName}
                           - {get_param: CinderBackupRbdPoolName}
-                          - {get_param: NovaRbdPoolName}
+                          - if:
+                            - equals: [{get_param: [RoleParameters, NovaRbdPoolName]}, '']
+                            - {get_param: NovaRbdPoolName}
+                            - {get_param: [RoleParameters, NovaRbdPoolName]}
                           - {get_param: GlanceRbdPoolName}
                         - if:
                           - equals: [{get_param: GnocchiRbdPoolName}, '']
diff --git a/deployment/nova/nova-compute-container-puppet.yaml b/deployment/nova/nova-compute-container-puppet.yaml
index 32ccf69481..45f381ce59 100644
--- a/deployment/nova/nova-compute-container-puppet.yaml
+++ b/deployment/nova/nova-compute-container-puppet.yaml
@@ -74,6 +74,9 @@ parameters:
   NovaRbdPoolName:
     default: vms
     type: string
+    description: The pool name for RBD backend ephemeral storage.
+    tags:
+      - role_specific
   CephClientKey:
     description: The Ceph client key. Can be created with ceph-authtool --gen-print-key.
     type: string
@@ -316,6 +319,7 @@ resources:
               nova::compute::libvirt::volume_use_multipath: NovaLibvirtVolumeUseMultipath
               nova::compute::libvirt::libvirt_hw_machine_type: NovaHWMachineType
               compute_enable_ksm: NovaComputeEnableKsm
+              nova::compute::rbd::libvirt_images_rbd_pool: NovaRbdPoolName
             - values: {get_param: [RoleParameters]}
           - values:
               NovaVcpuPinSet: {get_param: NovaVcpuPinSet}
@@ -330,6 +334,7 @@ resources:
               NovaLibvirtVolumeUseMultipath: {get_param: NovaLibvirtVolumeUseMultipath}
               NovaHWMachineType: {get_param: NovaHWMachineType}
               NovaComputeEnableKsm: {get_param: NovaComputeEnableKsm}
+              NovaRbdPoolName: {get_param: NovaRbdPoolName}
 
 conditions:
   enable_instance_ha: {equals: [{get_param: EnableInstanceHA}, true]}
@@ -382,7 +387,6 @@ outputs:
               - - '/etc/ceph/'
                 - {get_param: CephClusterName}
                 - '.conf'
-            nova::compute::rbd::libvirt_images_rbd_pool: {get_param: NovaRbdPoolName}
             nova::compute::rbd::libvirt_rbd_user: {get_param: CephClientUserName}
             nova::compute::rbd::rbd_keyring:
               list_join:
diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/nova-rbd-pool-role-specific-010f6072d641d84f.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/nova-rbd-pool-role-specific-010f6072d641d84f.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5e462919fb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releasenotes/notes/nova-rbd-pool-role-specific-010f6072d641d84f.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+---
+features:
+  - |
+    The parameter ``NovaRbdPoolName`` is changed to be role specific.
+    This requires the usage of host aggregates as otherwise it will break live
+    migration of instances as we can not do this with different storage backends.