diff --git a/tempest/api/compute/admin/test_volume_swap.py b/tempest/api/compute/admin/test_volume_swap.py
index b4bbbc9..047a540 100644
--- a/tempest/api/compute/admin/test_volume_swap.py
+++ b/tempest/api/compute/admin/test_volume_swap.py
@@ -156,6 +156,8 @@
         super(TestMultiAttachVolumeSwap, cls).skip_checks()
         if not CONF.compute_feature_enabled.volume_multiattach:
             raise cls.skipException('Volume multi-attach is not available.')
+        if not CONF.compute_feature_enabled.volume_type_multiattach:
+            raise cls.skipException('Multi-attach volume type is not defined')
 
     @classmethod
     def setup_clients(cls):
@@ -192,11 +194,13 @@
            "server1"
         8. Check "volume2" is attached to "server1".
         """
+        multiattach_vol_type = CONF.compute_feature_enabled.\
+            volume_type_multiattach
         # Create two volumes.
         # NOTE(gmann): Volumes are created before server creation so that
         # volumes cleanup can happen successfully irrespective of which volume
         # is attached to server.
-        volume1 = self.create_volume(multiattach=True)
+        volume1 = self.create_volume(volume_type=multiattach_vol_type)
         # Make volume1 read-only since you can't swap from a volume with
         # multiple read/write attachments, and you can't change the readonly
         # flag on an in-use volume so we have to do this before attaching
@@ -204,7 +208,7 @@
         # attach modes, then we can handle this differently.
         self.admin_volumes_client.update_volume_readonly(
             volume1['id'], readonly=True)
-        volume2 = self.create_volume(multiattach=True)
+        volume2 = self.create_volume(volume_type=multiattach_vol_type)
 
         # Create two servers and wait for them to be ACTIVE.
         reservation_id = self.create_test_server(
diff --git a/tempest/api/compute/admin/test_volumes_negative.py b/tempest/api/compute/admin/test_volumes_negative.py
index 24b0a52..96076ea 100644
--- a/tempest/api/compute/admin/test_volumes_negative.py
+++ b/tempest/api/compute/admin/test_volumes_negative.py
@@ -85,6 +85,8 @@
         super(UpdateMultiattachVolumeNegativeTest, cls).skip_checks()
         if not CONF.compute_feature_enabled.volume_multiattach:
             raise cls.skipException('Volume multi-attach is not available.')
+        if not CONF.compute_feature_enabled.volume_type_multiattach:
+            raise cls.skipException('Multi-attach volume type is not defined')
 
     @decorators.attr(type=['negative'])
     @decorators.idempotent_id('7576d497-b7c6-44bd-9cc5-c5b4e50fec71')
@@ -100,9 +102,12 @@
         5. Check "vol1" is still attached to both servers
         6. Check "vol2" is not attached to any server
         """
+        multiattach_vol_type = CONF.compute_feature_enabled.\
+            volume_type_multiattach
+
         # Create two multiattach capable volumes.
-        vol1 = self.create_volume(multiattach=True)
-        vol2 = self.create_volume(multiattach=True)
+        vol1 = self.create_volume(volume_type=multiattach_vol_type)
+        vol2 = self.create_volume(volume_type=multiattach_vol_type)
 
         # Create two instances.
         server1 = self.create_test_server(wait_until='ACTIVE')
diff --git a/tempest/api/compute/volumes/test_attach_volume.py b/tempest/api/compute/volumes/test_attach_volume.py
index ba02a4c..617b3a0 100644
--- a/tempest/api/compute/volumes/test_attach_volume.py
+++ b/tempest/api/compute/volumes/test_attach_volume.py
@@ -342,6 +342,8 @@
         super(AttachVolumeMultiAttachTest, cls).skip_checks()
         if not CONF.compute_feature_enabled.volume_multiattach:
             raise cls.skipException('Volume multi-attach is not available.')
+        if not CONF.compute_feature_enabled.volume_type_multiattach:
+            raise cls.skipException('Multi-attach volume type is not defined')
 
     def _attach_volume_to_servers(self, volume, servers):
         """Attaches the given volume to the list of servers.
@@ -383,7 +385,10 @@
         kwargs = {}
         if bootable:
             kwargs['image_ref'] = CONF.compute.image_ref
-        return self.create_volume(multiattach=True, **kwargs)
+        multiattach_vol_type = CONF.compute_feature_enabled.\
+            volume_type_multiattach
+        return self.create_volume(volume_type=multiattach_vol_type,
+                                  **kwargs)
 
     def _create_and_multiattach(self):
         """Creates two server instances and a volume and attaches to both.
diff --git a/tempest/config.py b/tempest/config.py
index 6768f95..41baf4e 100644
--- a/tempest/config.py
+++ b/tempest/config.py
@@ -654,6 +654,10 @@
                 help='Does the test environment support attaching a volume to '
                      'more than one instance? This depends on hypervisor and '
                      'volume backend/type and compute API version 2.60.'),
+    cfg.StrOpt('volume_type_multiattach',
+               default='',
+               help='Multiattach volume type used while creating multiattach '
+                    'volume. When empty multiattach tests are skipped'),
     cfg.BoolOpt('xenapi_apis',
                 default=False,
                 help='Does the test environment support the XenAPI-specific '