diff --git a/internal/util/connection.go b/internal/util/connection.go
index b25e35a6d..6d17697d9 100644
--- a/internal/util/connection.go
+++ b/internal/util/connection.go
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ import (
 
 	ca "github.com/ceph/go-ceph/cephfs/admin"
 	"github.com/ceph/go-ceph/rados"
+	ra "github.com/ceph/go-ceph/rbd/admin"
 )
 
 type ClusterConnection struct {
@@ -111,6 +112,15 @@ func (cc *ClusterConnection) GetFSAdmin() (*ca.FSAdmin, error) {
 	return ca.NewFromConn(cc.conn), nil
 }
 
+// GetRBDAdmin get RBDAdmin to administrate rbd volumes.
+func (cc *ClusterConnection) GetRBDAdmin() (*ra.RBDAdmin, error) {
+	if cc.conn == nil {
+		return nil, errors.New("cluster is not connected yet")
+	}
+
+	return ra.NewFromConn(cc.conn), nil
+}
+
 // DisableDiscardOnZeroedWriteSame enables the
 // `rbd_discard_on_zeroed_write_same` option in the cluster connection, so that
 // writing zero blocks of data are actual writes on the OSDs (doing