diff --git a/docs/schemas/storagepool.rng b/docs/schemas/storagepool.rng
index 3ca8e790ea..976a02baeb 100644
--- a/docs/schemas/storagepool.rng
+++ b/docs/schemas/storagepool.rng
@@ -305,7 +305,10 @@
     <oneOrMore>
       <element name='host'>
         <attribute name='name'>
-          <text/>
+          <choice>
+            <ref name="dnsName"/>
+            <ref name="ipAddr"/>
+          </choice>
         </attribute>
         <optional>
           <attribute name='port'>
diff --git a/src/storage/storage_backend_rbd.c b/src/storage/storage_backend_rbd.c
index f8c968e682..bd6e3d509d 100644
--- a/src/storage/storage_backend_rbd.c
+++ b/src/storage/storage_backend_rbd.c
@@ -261,6 +261,7 @@ virStorageBackendRBDOpenRADOSConn(virStorageBackendRBDStatePtr ptr,
     VIR_DEBUG("Found %zu RADOS cluster monitors in the pool configuration",
               source->nhost);
 
+    /* combine host and port into portal */
     for (i = 0; i < source->nhost; i++) {
         if (source->hosts[i].name != NULL &&
             !source->hosts[i].port) {
@@ -268,7 +269,15 @@ virStorageBackendRBDOpenRADOSConn(virStorageBackendRBDStatePtr ptr,
                               source->hosts[i].name);
         } else if (source->hosts[i].name != NULL &&
             source->hosts[i].port) {
-            virBufferAsprintf(&mon_host, "%s:%d,",
+            const char *incFormat;
+            if (virSocketAddrNumericFamily(source->hosts[i].name) == AF_INET6) {
+                /* IPv6 address must be escaped in brackets on the cmd line */
+                incFormat = "[%s]:%d";
+            } else {
+                /* listenAddress is a hostname or IPv4 */
+                incFormat = "%s:%d";
+            }
+            virBufferAsprintf(&mon_host, incFormat,
                               source->hosts[i].name,
                               source->hosts[i].port);
         } else {
diff --git a/tests/storagepoolxml2xmlin/pool-rbd-ipv6.xml b/tests/storagepoolxml2xmlin/pool-rbd-ipv6.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0744b3382c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/storagepoolxml2xmlin/pool-rbd-ipv6.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+<pool type='rbd'>
+  <name>ceph</name>
+  <uuid>47c1faee-0207-e741-f5ae-d9b019b98fe2</uuid>
+  <source>
+    <name>rbd</name>
+    <host name='localhost' port='6789'/>
+    <host name='localhost' port='6790'/>
+    <host name='2205::192:168:205:141' port='6789'/>
+    <auth username='admin' type='ceph'>
+      <secret uuid='2ec115d7-3a88-3ceb-bc12-0ac909a6fd87'/>
+    </auth>
+  </source>
+</pool>
diff --git a/tests/storagepoolxml2xmlout/pool-rbd-ipv6.xml b/tests/storagepoolxml2xmlout/pool-rbd-ipv6.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..cc2a37975d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/storagepoolxml2xmlout/pool-rbd-ipv6.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+<pool type='rbd'>
+  <name>ceph</name>
+  <uuid>47c1faee-0207-e741-f5ae-d9b019b98fe2</uuid>
+  <capacity unit='bytes'>0</capacity>
+  <allocation unit='bytes'>0</allocation>
+  <available unit='bytes'>0</available>
+  <source>
+    <host name='localhost' port='6789'/>
+    <host name='localhost' port='6790'/>
+    <host name='2205::192:168:205:141' port='6789'/>
+    <name>rbd</name>
+    <auth type='ceph' username='admin'>
+      <secret uuid='2ec115d7-3a88-3ceb-bc12-0ac909a6fd87'/>
+    </auth>
+  </source>
+</pool>
diff --git a/tests/storagepoolxml2xmltest.c b/tests/storagepoolxml2xmltest.c
index 2ae514f346..b6f4cb4226 100644
--- a/tests/storagepoolxml2xmltest.c
+++ b/tests/storagepoolxml2xmltest.c
@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ mymain(void)
     DO_TEST("pool-zfs-sourcedev");
     DO_TEST("pool-rbd");
 #ifdef WITH_STORAGE_RBD
+    DO_TEST("pool-rbd-ipv6");
     DO_TEST("pool-rbd-refresh-volume-allocation");
     DO_TEST("pool-rbd-ns-configopts");
 #endif