diff --git a/tcp_tests/templates/virtual-mcp-ocata-ovs-ceph/ceph.yaml b/tcp_tests/templates/virtual-mcp-ocata-ovs-ceph/ceph.yaml
index aeb8712..17450c6 100644
--- a/tcp_tests/templates/virtual-mcp-ocata-ovs-ceph/ceph.yaml
+++ b/tcp_tests/templates/virtual-mcp-ocata-ovs-ceph/ceph.yaml
@@ -140,6 +140,13 @@
   retry: {count: 2, delay: 5}
   skip_fail: false
 
+- description: Restart nova-compute
+  cmd: |
+    salt -C 'I@nova:compute' service.restart nova-compute;
+  node_name: {{ HOSTNAME_CFG01 }}
+  retry: {count: 2, delay: 5}
+  skip_fail: false
+
 - description: conver cirros image
   cmd: salt --hard-crash --state-output=mixed --state-verbose=False 'ctl01*' cmd.run
     'qemu-img convert cirros-0.3.4-i386-disk.img cirros.raw'