diff --git a/ironic/conductor/manager.py b/ironic/conductor/manager.py
index d310b4dc40..aee508ea7d 100644
--- a/ironic/conductor/manager.py
+++ b/ironic/conductor/manager.py
@@ -514,12 +514,13 @@ class ConductorManager(periodic_task.PeriodicTasks):
                                                   node=node.uuid)
 
             try:
+                task.driver.power.validate(task)
                 task.driver.deploy.validate(task)
             except (exception.InvalidParameterValue,
                     exception.MissingParameterValue) as e:
                 raise exception.InstanceDeployFailure(_(
-                    "RPC do_node_deploy failed to validate deploy info. "
-                    "Error: %(msg)s") % {'msg': e})
+                    "RPC do_node_deploy failed to validate deploy or "
+                    "power info. Error: %(msg)s") % {'msg': e})
 
             # Save the previous states so we can rollback the node to a
             # consistent state in case there's no free workers to do the
diff --git a/ironic/tests/conductor/test_manager.py b/ironic/tests/conductor/test_manager.py
index e224843924..7cdcf559bf 100644
--- a/ironic/tests/conductor/test_manager.py
+++ b/ironic/tests/conductor/test_manager.py
@@ -663,8 +663,7 @@ class DoNodeDeployTearDownTestCase(_ServiceSetUpMixin,
         # Verify reservation has been cleared.
         self.assertIsNone(node.reservation)
 
-    @mock.patch('ironic.drivers.modules.fake.FakeDeploy.validate')
-    def test_do_node_deploy_validate_fail(self, mock_validate):
+    def _test_do_node_deploy_validate_fail(self, mock_validate):
         # InvalidParameterValue should be re-raised as InstanceDeployFailure
         mock_validate.side_effect = exception.InvalidParameterValue('error')
         node = obj_utils.create_test_node(self.context, driver='fake')
@@ -678,6 +677,14 @@ class DoNodeDeployTearDownTestCase(_ServiceSetUpMixin,
         # Verify reservation has been cleared.
         self.assertIsNone(node.reservation)
 
+    @mock.patch('ironic.drivers.modules.fake.FakeDeploy.validate')
+    def test_do_node_deploy_validate_fail(self, mock_validate):
+        self._test_do_node_deploy_validate_fail(mock_validate)
+
+    @mock.patch('ironic.drivers.modules.fake.FakePower.validate')
+    def test_do_node_deploy_power_validate_fail(self, mock_validate):
+        self._test_do_node_deploy_validate_fail(mock_validate)
+
     @mock.patch('ironic.drivers.modules.fake.FakeDeploy.deploy')
     def test__do_node_deploy_driver_raises_error(self, mock_deploy):
         # test when driver.deploy.deploy raises an exception