diff --git a/novaclient/client.py b/novaclient/client.py
index 7a7c06fe6..0b9aeeecc 100644
--- a/novaclient/client.py
+++ b/novaclient/client.py
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ import logging
 import time
 
 import requests
+from requests import adapters
 
 try:
     import json
@@ -38,8 +39,20 @@ from novaclient import service_catalog
 from novaclient import utils
 
 
-class HTTPClient(object):
+_ADAPTERS = {}
 
+
+def _adapter_pool(url):
+    """
+    Store and reuse HTTP adapters per Service URL.
+    """
+    if url not in _ADAPTERS:
+        _ADAPTERS[url] = adapters.HTTPAdapter()
+
+    return _ADAPTERS[url]
+
+
+class HTTPClient(object):
     USER_AGENT = 'python-novaclient'
 
     def __init__(self, user, password, projectid=None, auth_url=None,
@@ -105,8 +118,10 @@ class HTTPClient(object):
 
         self.auth_system = auth_system
         self.auth_plugin = auth_plugin
-
+        self._current_url = None
+        self._http = None
         self._logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
         if self.http_log_debug and not self._logger.handlers:
             # Logging level is already set on the root logger
             ch = logging.StreamHandler()
@@ -119,8 +134,6 @@ class HTTPClient(object):
                 # have to set it up here on WARNING (its original level)
                 # otherwise we will get all the requests logging messages
                 rql.setLevel(logging.WARNING)
-        # requests within the same session can reuse TCP connections from pool
-        self.http = requests.Session()
 
     def use_token_cache(self, use_it):
         self.os_cache = use_it
@@ -167,6 +180,20 @@ class HTTPClient(object):
                                              'headers': resp.headers,
                                              'text': resp.text})
 
+    def http(self, url):
+        magic_tuple = parse.urlsplit(url)
+        scheme, netloc, path, query, frag = magic_tuple
+        service_url = '%s://%s' % (scheme, netloc)
+        if self._current_url != service_url:
+            # Invalidate Session object in case the url is somehow changed
+            if self._http:
+                self._http.close()
+            self._current_url = service_url
+            self._logger.debug("New session created for: (%s)" % service_url)
+            self._http = requests.Session()
+            self._http.mount(service_url, _adapter_pool(service_url))
+        return self._http
+
     def request(self, url, method, **kwargs):
         kwargs.setdefault('headers', kwargs.get('headers', {}))
         kwargs['headers']['User-Agent'] = self.USER_AGENT
@@ -180,10 +207,11 @@ class HTTPClient(object):
         kwargs['verify'] = self.verify_cert
 
         self.http_log_req(method, url, kwargs)
-        resp = self.http.request(
+        resp = self.http(url).request(
             method,
             url,
             **kwargs)
+
         self.http_log_resp(resp)
 
         if resp.text: