diff --git a/definitions/pacemaker_vip_primitive.rb b/definitions/pacemaker_vip_primitive.rb
index 89565b4..f2d3255 100644
--- a/definitions/pacemaker_vip_primitive.rb
+++ b/definitions/pacemaker_vip_primitive.rb
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ define :pacemaker_vip_primitive, :cb_network => nil, :hostname => nil, :domain =
 
   primitive_name = "#{params[:hostname]}-vip-#{params[:cb_network]}"
 
+  # Allow one retry, to avoid races where two nodes create the primitive at the
+  # same time when it wasn't created yet (only one can obviously succeed)
   pacemaker_primitive primitive_name do
     agent "ocf:heartbeat:IPaddr2"
     params ({
@@ -11,6 +13,8 @@ define :pacemaker_vip_primitive, :cb_network => nil, :hostname => nil, :domain =
     })
     op params[:op]
     action :create
+    retries 1
+    retry_delay 5
   end
 
   # we return the primitive name so that the caller can use it as part of a