diff --git a/trove/guestagent/db/models.py b/trove/guestagent/db/models.py
index 191e674647..234cbc412a 100644
--- a/trove/guestagent/db/models.py
+++ b/trove/guestagent/db/models.py
@@ -308,6 +308,7 @@ class MySQLDatabase(Base):
                "gbk": ["gbk_chinese_ci", "gbk_bin"],
                "latin5": ["latin5_turkish_ci", "latin5_bin"],
                "armscii8": ["armscii8_general_ci", "armscii8_bin"],
+               "utf8mb4": ["utf8_unicode_ci", "utf8mb4_unicode_ci"],
                "utf8": ["utf8_general_ci",
                         "utf8_bin",
                         "utf8_unicode_ci",
@@ -427,6 +428,7 @@ class MySQLDatabase(Base):
                  "latin5_bin": "latin5",
                  "armscii8_general_ci": "armscii8",
                  "armscii8_bin": "armscii8",
+                 "utf8mb4_unicode_ci": "utf8mb4",
                  "utf8_general_ci": "utf8",
                  "utf8_bin": "utf8",
                  "utf8_unicode_ci": "utf8",