diff --git a/core/resources/META-INF/cloudstack/core/spring-core-registry-core-context.xml b/core/resources/META-INF/cloudstack/core/spring-core-registry-core-context.xml
index 170d33d8588..1de9a04fc6b 100644
--- a/core/resources/META-INF/cloudstack/core/spring-core-registry-core-context.xml
+++ b/core/resources/META-INF/cloudstack/core/spring-core-registry-core-context.xml
@@ -184,4 +184,14 @@
         </property>
     </bean>
 
+    <bean id="snapshotStrategiesRegistry"
+        class="org.apache.cloudstack.spring.lifecycle.registry.ExtensionRegistry">
+        <property name="excludeKey" value="snapshot.strategies.exclude" />
+    </bean>
+
+    <bean id="dataMotionStrategiesRegistry"
+        class="org.apache.cloudstack.spring.lifecycle.registry.ExtensionRegistry">
+        <property name="excludeKey" value="data.motion.strategies.exclude" />
+    </bean>
+    
 </beans>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/core/resources/META-INF/cloudstack/storage/spring-lifecycle-storage-context-inheritable.xml b/core/resources/META-INF/cloudstack/storage/spring-lifecycle-storage-context-inheritable.xml
index 617dd214326..b6eed7d342b 100644
--- a/core/resources/META-INF/cloudstack/storage/spring-lifecycle-storage-context-inheritable.xml
+++ b/core/resources/META-INF/cloudstack/storage/spring-lifecycle-storage-context-inheritable.xml
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@
         <property name="registry" ref="templateAdapterRegistry" />
         <property name="typeClass" value="com.cloud.template.TemplateAdapter" />
     </bean>
+
     
     <bean class="org.apache.cloudstack.spring.lifecycle.registry.RegistryLifecycle">
         <property name="registry" ref="podAllocatorsRegistry" />
@@ -56,5 +57,18 @@
             value="com.cloud.agent.manager.allocator.PodAllocator" />
     </bean>
 
+    <bean class="org.apache.cloudstack.spring.lifecycle.registry.RegistryLifecycle">
+        <property name="registry" ref="snapshotStrategiesRegistry" />
+        <property name="typeClass"
+            value="org.apache.cloudstack.engine.subsystem.api.storage.SnapshotStrategy" />
+    </bean>
+
+    <bean class="org.apache.cloudstack.spring.lifecycle.registry.RegistryLifecycle">
+        <property name="registry" ref="dataMotionStrategiesRegistry" />
+        <property name="typeClass"
+            value="org.apache.cloudstack.engine.subsystem.api.storage.DataMotionStrategy" />
+    </bean>
+    
+
     
 </beans>
diff --git a/engine/storage/datamotion/resources/META-INF/cloudstack/core/spring-engine-storage-datamotion-core-context.xml b/engine/storage/datamotion/resources/META-INF/cloudstack/core/spring-engine-storage-datamotion-core-context.xml
index 822644eb232..07c0fdf16c3 100644
--- a/engine/storage/datamotion/resources/META-INF/cloudstack/core/spring-engine-storage-datamotion-core-context.xml
+++ b/engine/storage/datamotion/resources/META-INF/cloudstack/core/spring-engine-storage-datamotion-core-context.xml
@@ -26,20 +26,10 @@
                       http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
                       http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd"
                       >
-    <bean id="ancientDataMotionStrategy"
-        class="org.apache.cloudstack.storage.motion.AncientDataMotionStrategy" />
-    <bean id="xenserverStorageMotionStrategy"
-        class="org.apache.cloudstack.storage.motion.XenServerStorageMotionStrategy" />
 
     <bean id="dataMotionServiceImpl"
         class="org.apache.cloudstack.storage.motion.DataMotionServiceImpl">
-        <property name="strategies">
-            <list>
-                <ref local="ancientDataMotionStrategy" />
-                <ref local="xenserverStorageMotionStrategy" />
-            </list>
-        </property>
+        <property name="strategies" value="#{dataMotionStrategiesRegistry.registered}" />
     </bean>
-    
-    
+
 </beans>
diff --git a/engine/storage/datamotion/resources/META-INF/cloudstack/storage/spring-engine-storage-datamotion-storage-context.xml b/engine/storage/datamotion/resources/META-INF/cloudstack/storage/spring-engine-storage-datamotion-storage-context.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..725f7d35be5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/engine/storage/datamotion/resources/META-INF/cloudstack/storage/spring-engine-storage-datamotion-storage-context.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+<!--
+  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.
+-->
+<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
+       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
+       xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
+                      http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
+                      http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.0.xsd
+                      http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
+                      http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd"
+                      >
+    <bean id="ancientDataMotionStrategy"
+        class="org.apache.cloudstack.storage.motion.AncientDataMotionStrategy" />
+    <bean id="xenserverStorageMotionStrategy"
+        class="org.apache.cloudstack.storage.motion.XenServerStorageMotionStrategy" />
+
+</beans>
diff --git a/engine/storage/datamotion/src/org/apache/cloudstack/storage/motion/DataMotionServiceImpl.java b/engine/storage/datamotion/src/org/apache/cloudstack/storage/motion/DataMotionServiceImpl.java
index 9f0f5311a28..4da73058b39 100644
--- a/engine/storage/datamotion/src/org/apache/cloudstack/storage/motion/DataMotionServiceImpl.java
+++ b/engine/storage/datamotion/src/org/apache/cloudstack/storage/motion/DataMotionServiceImpl.java
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ import java.util.Map;
 
 @Component
 public class DataMotionServiceImpl implements DataMotionService {
-    @Inject
+
     List<DataMotionStrategy> strategies;
 
     @Override
@@ -74,7 +74,12 @@ public class DataMotionServiceImpl implements DataMotionService {
         throw new CloudRuntimeException("can't find strategy to move data");
     }
 
+    @Inject
     public void setStrategies(List<DataMotionStrategy> strategies) {
         this.strategies = strategies;
     }
+
+    public List<DataMotionStrategy> getStrategies() {
+        return strategies;
+    }
 }
diff --git a/engine/storage/snapshot/resources/META-INF/cloudstack/core/spring-engine-storage-snapshot-core-context.xml b/engine/storage/snapshot/resources/META-INF/cloudstack/core/spring-engine-storage-snapshot-core-context.xml
index c9c89e3f3d1..308899280dc 100644
--- a/engine/storage/snapshot/resources/META-INF/cloudstack/core/spring-engine-storage-snapshot-core-context.xml
+++ b/engine/storage/snapshot/resources/META-INF/cloudstack/core/spring-engine-storage-snapshot-core-context.xml
@@ -31,9 +31,6 @@
         class="org.apache.cloudstack.storage.snapshot.SnapshotServiceImpl"
         depends-on="snapshotStateMachineManagerImpl, snapshotDataFactoryImpl, dataStoreManagerImpl, dataMotionServiceImpl, objectInDataStoreManagerImpl" />
 
-    <bean id="xenserverSnapshotStrategy"
-        class="org.apache.cloudstack.storage.snapshot.XenserverSnapshotStrategy" />
-
     <bean id="snapshotDataFactoryImpl"
         class="org.apache.cloudstack.storage.snapshot.SnapshotDataFactoryImpl"
         depends-on="dataStoreManagerImpl, snapshotDataStoreDaoImpl, volumeDataFactoryImpl" />
diff --git a/engine/storage/snapshot/resources/META-INF/cloudstack/storage/spring-engine-storage-snapshot-storage-context.xml b/engine/storage/snapshot/resources/META-INF/cloudstack/storage/spring-engine-storage-snapshot-storage-context.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3faa89482c6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/engine/storage/snapshot/resources/META-INF/cloudstack/storage/spring-engine-storage-snapshot-storage-context.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+<!--
+  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.
+-->
+<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
+       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
+       xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
+                      http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
+                      http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.0.xsd
+                      http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
+                      http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd"
+                      >
+
+    <bean id="xenserverSnapshotStrategy"
+        class="org.apache.cloudstack.storage.snapshot.XenserverSnapshotStrategy" />
+
+</beans>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/server/resources/META-INF/cloudstack/core/spring-server-core-managers-context.xml b/server/resources/META-INF/cloudstack/core/spring-server-core-managers-context.xml
index 11b69d213ad..7400759547a 100644
--- a/server/resources/META-INF/cloudstack/core/spring-server-core-managers-context.xml
+++ b/server/resources/META-INF/cloudstack/core/spring-server-core-managers-context.xml
@@ -142,7 +142,9 @@
 
     <bean id="site2SiteVpnManagerImpl" class="com.cloud.network.vpn.Site2SiteVpnManagerImpl" />
 
-    <bean id="snapshotManagerImpl" class="com.cloud.storage.snapshot.SnapshotManagerImpl" />
+    <bean id="snapshotManagerImpl" class="com.cloud.storage.snapshot.SnapshotManagerImpl" >
+        <property name="snapshotStrategies" value="#{snapshotStrategiesRegistry.registered}" />
+    </bean>
 
     <bean id="snapshotSchedulerImpl" class="com.cloud.storage.snapshot.SnapshotSchedulerImpl" />
     <bean id="storageNetworkManagerImpl" class="com.cloud.network.StorageNetworkManagerImpl" />
diff --git a/server/src/com/cloud/storage/snapshot/SnapshotManagerImpl.java b/server/src/com/cloud/storage/snapshot/SnapshotManagerImpl.java
index 2297e6adde3..93377050ff3 100755
--- a/server/src/com/cloud/storage/snapshot/SnapshotManagerImpl.java
+++ b/server/src/com/cloud/storage/snapshot/SnapshotManagerImpl.java
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ public class SnapshotManagerImpl extends ManagerBase implements SnapshotManager,
     @Inject EndPointSelector _epSelector;
 	@Inject
 	private ResourceManager _resourceMgr;
-	@Inject
+	
 	protected List<SnapshotStrategy> snapshotStrategies;
 
 
@@ -1193,4 +1193,13 @@ public class SnapshotManagerImpl extends ManagerBase implements SnapshotManager,
         }
         return snapshot;
     }
+
+    public List<SnapshotStrategy> getSnapshotStrategies() {
+        return snapshotStrategies;
+    }
+
+    @Inject
+    public void setSnapshotStrategies(List<SnapshotStrategy> snapshotStrategies) {
+        this.snapshotStrategies = snapshotStrategies;
+    }
 }