diff --git a/examples/persistent-volume-provisioning/README.md b/examples/persistent-volume-provisioning/README.md
index 4ddd05b183c..b5b01c78477 100644
--- a/examples/persistent-volume-provisioning/README.md
+++ b/examples/persistent-volume-provisioning/README.md
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ parameters:
 * **user** maps all access to this user. Default is `root`.
 * **group** maps all access to this group. Default is `nfsnobody`.
 * **quobyteConfig** use the specified configuration to create the volume. You can create a new configuration or modify an existing one with the Web console or the quobyte CLI. Default is `BASE`
-* **quobyteTenant** use the specified tenant ID to create/delete the volume. This Quobyte tenant has to be already present in Quobyte. Default is `DEFAULT`
+* **quobyteTenant** use the specified tenant ID to create/delete the volume. This Quobyte tenant has to be already present in Quobyte. For Quobyte < 1.4 use an empty string `""` as `DEFAULT` tenant. Default is `DEFAULT`
 
 First create Quobyte admin's Secret in the system namespace. Here the Secret is created in `kube-system`:
 
diff --git a/examples/persistent-volume-provisioning/quobyte/quobyte-admin-secret.yaml b/examples/persistent-volume-provisioning/quobyte/quobyte-admin-secret.yaml
index 9e395a89b31..24cc7677387 100644
--- a/examples/persistent-volume-provisioning/quobyte/quobyte-admin-secret.yaml
+++ b/examples/persistent-volume-provisioning/quobyte/quobyte-admin-secret.yaml
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ apiVersion: v1
 kind: Secret
 metadata:
   name: quobyte-admin-secret
+type: "kubernetes.io/quobyte"
 data:
   password: cXVvYnl0ZQ==
   user: YWRtaW4=
diff --git a/pkg/volume/quobyte/quobyte.go b/pkg/volume/quobyte/quobyte.go
index 10bb7677f2d..7f14568148b 100644
--- a/pkg/volume/quobyte/quobyte.go
+++ b/pkg/volume/quobyte/quobyte.go
@@ -61,10 +61,6 @@ var _ volume.Deleter = &quobyteVolumeDeleter{}
 
 const (
 	quobytePluginName = "kubernetes.io/quobyte"
-
-	annotationQuobyteAPIServer          = "quobyte.kubernetes.io/api"
-	annotationQuobyteAPISecret          = "quobyte.kubernetes.io/apiuser"
-	annotationQuobyteAPISecretNamespace = "quobyte.kubernetes.io/apipassword"
 )
 
 func (plugin *quobytePlugin) Init(host volume.VolumeHost) error {