diff --git a/sandbox-providers/softlayer/src/main/java/org/jclouds/softlayer/SoftLayerPropertiesBuilder.java b/sandbox-providers/softlayer/src/main/java/org/jclouds/softlayer/SoftLayerPropertiesBuilder.java
index b0fd78214b..c6aeeaa538 100644
--- a/sandbox-providers/softlayer/src/main/java/org/jclouds/softlayer/SoftLayerPropertiesBuilder.java
+++ b/sandbox-providers/softlayer/src/main/java/org/jclouds/softlayer/SoftLayerPropertiesBuilder.java
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ package org.jclouds.softlayer;
 
 import static org.jclouds.Constants.PROPERTY_API_VERSION;
 import static org.jclouds.Constants.PROPERTY_ENDPOINT;
+import static org.jclouds.Constants.PROPERTY_ISO3166_CODES;
 
 import java.util.Properties;
 
@@ -38,6 +39,7 @@ public class SoftLayerPropertiesBuilder extends PropertiesBuilder {
       properties.setProperty(PROPERTY_ENDPOINT, "https://api.softlayer.com/rest");
       properties.setProperty(PROPERTY_API_VERSION, "3");
       properties.setProperty(SoftLayerConstants.PROPERTY_SOFTLAYER_VIRTUALGUEST_PACKAGE_NAME, "Cloud Server");
+      properties.setProperty(PROPERTY_ISO3166_CODES, "SG,US-CA,US-TX,US-VA,US-WA,US-TX");
       return properties;
    }
 
diff --git a/sandbox-providers/softlayer/src/main/java/org/jclouds/softlayer/SoftLayerProviderMetadata.java b/sandbox-providers/softlayer/src/main/java/org/jclouds/softlayer/SoftLayerProviderMetadata.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..abf0a02c56
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sandbox-providers/softlayer/src/main/java/org/jclouds/softlayer/SoftLayerProviderMetadata.java
@@ -0,0 +1,115 @@
+/**
+ * Licensed to jclouds, Inc. (jclouds) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  jclouds 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.
+ */
+package org.jclouds.softlayer;
+
+import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableSet;
+
+import java.net.URI;
+import java.util.Set;
+
+import org.jclouds.providers.BaseProviderMetadata;
+import org.jclouds.providers.ProviderMetadata;
+
+/**
+ * Implementation of {@ link org.jclouds.types.ProviderMetadata} for SoftLayer.
+ *
+ * @author Adrian Cole
+ */
+public class SoftLayerProviderMetadata extends BaseProviderMetadata {
+
+   /**
+    * {@inheritDoc}
+    */
+   @Override
+   public String getId() {
+      return "softlayer";
+   }
+
+   /**
+    * {@inheritDoc}
+    */
+   @Override
+   public String getType() {
+      return ProviderMetadata.COMPUTE_TYPE;
+   }
+
+   /**
+    * {@inheritDoc}
+    */
+   @Override
+   public String getName() {
+      return "//TODO SoftLayer";
+   }
+
+   /**
+    * {@inheritDoc}
+    */
+   @Override
+   public String getIdentityName() {
+      return "//TODO";
+   }
+
+   /**
+    * {@inheritDoc}
+    */
+   @Override
+   public String getCredentialName() {
+      return "//TODO";
+   }
+
+   /**
+    * {@inheritDoc}
+    */
+   @Override
+   public URI getHomepage() {
+      return URI.create("//TODO");
+   }
+
+   /**
+    * {@inheritDoc}
+    */
+   @Override
+   public URI getConsole() {
+      return URI.create("//TODO");
+   }
+   /**
+    * {@inheritDoc}
+    */
+   @Override
+   public URI getApiDocumentation() {
+      return URI.create("http://sldn.softlayer.com/article/REST");
+   }
+
+   /**
+    * {@inheritDoc}
+    */
+   @Override
+   public Set<String> getLinkedServices() {
+      return ImmutableSet.of("softlayer");
+   }
+
+   /**
+    * {@inheritDoc}
+    */
+   @Override
+   public Set<String> getIso3166Codes() {
+      return ImmutableSet.of("SG","US-CA","US-TX","US-VA","US-WA","US-TX");
+   }
+
+}
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diff --git a/sandbox-providers/softlayer/src/main/resources/META-INF/services/org.jclouds.providers.ProviderMetadata b/sandbox-providers/softlayer/src/main/resources/META-INF/services/org.jclouds.providers.ProviderMetadata
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b79ad351af
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sandbox-providers/softlayer/src/main/resources/META-INF/services/org.jclouds.providers.ProviderMetadata
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+org.jclouds.softlayer.SoftLayerProviderMetadata
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diff --git a/sandbox-providers/softlayer/src/test/java/org/jclouds/softlayer/SoftLayerProviderTest.java b/sandbox-providers/softlayer/src/test/java/org/jclouds/softlayer/SoftLayerProviderTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4f235dc999
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sandbox-providers/softlayer/src/test/java/org/jclouds/softlayer/SoftLayerProviderTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+/**
+ * Licensed to jclouds, Inc. (jclouds) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  jclouds 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.
+ */
+package org.jclouds.softlayer;
+
+import org.jclouds.providers.BaseProviderMetadataTest;
+import org.jclouds.providers.ProviderMetadata;
+import org.testng.annotations.Test;
+
+/**
+ * 
+ * @author Adrian Cole
+ */
+@Test(groups = "unit", testName = "SoftLayerProviderTest")
+public class SoftLayerProviderTest extends BaseProviderMetadataTest {
+
+   public SoftLayerProviderTest() {
+      super(new SoftLayerProviderMetadata(), ProviderMetadata.COMPUTE_TYPE);
+   }
+}
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diff --git a/sandbox-providers/softlayer/src/test/java/org/jclouds/softlayer/compute/SoftLayerTemplateBuilderLiveTest.java b/sandbox-providers/softlayer/src/test/java/org/jclouds/softlayer/compute/SoftLayerTemplateBuilderLiveTest.java
index 28e788d848..6a1cc0245a 100644
--- a/sandbox-providers/softlayer/src/test/java/org/jclouds/softlayer/compute/SoftLayerTemplateBuilderLiveTest.java
+++ b/sandbox-providers/softlayer/src/test/java/org/jclouds/softlayer/compute/SoftLayerTemplateBuilderLiveTest.java
@@ -84,6 +84,6 @@ public class SoftLayerTemplateBuilderLiveTest extends BaseTemplateBuilderLiveTes
 
    @Override
    protected Set<String> getIso3166Codes() {
-      return ImmutableSet.<String> of("US-IL", "US-TX", "US-MO");
+      return ImmutableSet.<String> of("SG","US-CA","US-TX","US-VA","US-WA","US-TX");
    }
 }
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