diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 998a676300..f93ae9e9fc 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Babel!=2.4.0,>=2.3.4 # BSD
 enum34;python_version=='2.7' or python_version=='2.6' or python_version=='3.3' # BSD
 iso8601>=0.1.11 # MIT
 jsonschema!=2.5.0,<3.0.0,>=2.0.0 # MIT
-python-cinderclient>=2.1.0 # Apache-2.0
+python-cinderclient>=3.0.0 # Apache-2.0
 keystoneauth1>=3.0.1 # Apache-2.0
 python-neutronclient>=6.3.0 # Apache-2.0
 python-glanceclient>=2.7.0 # Apache-2.0