diff --git a/proxmox/provider.go b/proxmox/provider.go
index 82304ba..8ba9278 100644
--- a/proxmox/provider.go
+++ b/proxmox/provider.go
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ package proxmox
 import (
 	pxapi "github.com/Telmate/proxmox-api-go/proxmox"
 	"github.com/hashicorp/terraform/helper/schema"
+	"sync"
 )
 
 type providerConfiguration struct {
@@ -54,3 +55,20 @@ func providerConfigure(d *schema.ResourceData) (interface{}, error) {
 		Client: client,
 	}, nil
 }
+
+var mutex = &sync.Mutex{}
+var maxVmId = 0
+
+func nextVmId(client *pxapi.Client) (nextId int, err error) {
+	mutex.Lock()
+	if maxVmId == 0 {
+		maxVmId, err = pxapi.MaxVmId(client)
+		if err != nil {
+			return 0, err
+		}
+	}
+	maxVmId++
+	nextId = maxVmId
+	mutex.Unlock()
+	return nextId, nil
+}
diff --git a/proxmox/resource_vm_qemu.go b/proxmox/resource_vm_qemu.go
index ae3450b..195739f 100644
--- a/proxmox/resource_vm_qemu.go
+++ b/proxmox/resource_vm_qemu.go
@@ -127,11 +127,11 @@ func resourceVmQemuCreate(d *schema.ResourceData, meta interface{}) error {
 	}
 
 	// get unique id
-	maxid, err := pxapi.MaxVmId(client)
+	nextid, err := nextVmId(client)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
-	vmr := pxapi.NewVmRef(maxid + 1)
+	vmr := pxapi.NewVmRef(nextid)
 	vmr.SetNode(d.Get("target_node").(string))
 
 	// check if ISO or clone