diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/pom.xml b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/pom.xml
index f8b17223e3e..9b8f21ff0f3 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/pom.xml
@@ -304,6 +304,7 @@ http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
             <configuration>
               <tasks>
                 <copy file="src/main/resources/hdfs-default.xml" todir="src/site/resources"/>
+                <copy file="src/main/resources/ozone-default.xml" todir="src/site/resources"/>
                 <copy file="src/main/xsl/configuration.xsl" todir="src/site/resources"/>
               </tasks>
             </configuration>
@@ -415,6 +416,7 @@ http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
               <includes>
                 <include>configuration.xsl</include>
                 <include>hdfs-default.xml</include>
+                <include>ozone-default.xml</include>
               </includes>
               <followSymlinks>false</followSymlinks>
             </fileset>
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/StorageContainerConfiguration.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/OzoneConfiguration.java
similarity index 91%
rename from hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/StorageContainerConfiguration.java
rename to hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/OzoneConfiguration.java
index a83fa339f57..70efa49e520 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/StorageContainerConfiguration.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/OzoneConfiguration.java
@@ -25,11 +25,12 @@ import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
  * Configuration for ozone.
  */
 @InterfaceAudience.Private
-public class StorageContainerConfiguration extends Configuration {
+public class OzoneConfiguration extends Configuration {
   static {
     // adds the default resources
     Configuration.addDefaultResource("hdfs-default.xml");
     Configuration.addDefaultResource("hdfs-site.xml");
+    Configuration.addDefaultResource("ozone-default.xml");
     Configuration.addDefaultResource("ozone-site.xml");
   }
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/web/localstorage/OzoneMetadataManager.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/web/localstorage/OzoneMetadataManager.java
index 22b1ed297ff..b13ffd4387f 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/web/localstorage/OzoneMetadataManager.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/web/localstorage/OzoneMetadataManager.java
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ package org.apache.hadoop.ozone.web.localstorage;
 import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
 import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
 import org.apache.hadoop.ozone.OzoneConfigKeys;
-import org.apache.hadoop.ozone.StorageContainerConfiguration;
+import org.apache.hadoop.ozone.OzoneConfiguration;
 import org.apache.hadoop.ozone.web.exceptions.ErrorTable;
 import org.apache.hadoop.ozone.web.exceptions.OzoneException;
 import org.apache.hadoop.ozone.web.handlers.UserArgs;
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ public final class OzoneMetadataManager {
   private OzoneMetadataManager() {
 
     lock = new ReentrantReadWriteLock();
-    StorageContainerConfiguration conf = new StorageContainerConfiguration();
+    OzoneConfiguration conf = new OzoneConfiguration();
 
     String storageRoot =
         conf.getTrimmed(OzoneConfigKeys.DFS_STORAGE_LOCAL_ROOT,
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/resources/ozone-default.xml b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/resources/ozone-default.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..209a2809ec3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/resources/ozone-default.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="configuration.xsl"?>
+
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+
+<!-- Do not modify this file directly.  Instead, copy entries that you -->
+<!-- wish to modify from this file into ozone-site.xml and change them -->
+<!-- there.  If ozone-site.xml does not already exist, create it.      -->
+
+<configuration>
+
+</configuration>
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/resources/ozone-site.xml b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/resources/ozone-site.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..77dd7ef9940
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/resources/ozone-site.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="configuration.xsl"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+
+<!-- Put site-specific property overrides in this file. -->
+
+<configuration>
+
+</configuration>