diff --git a/pkg/cvo/updatepayload.go b/pkg/cvo/updatepayload.go
index 7f6aa09a29..13e9d33684 100644
--- a/pkg/cvo/updatepayload.go
+++ b/pkg/cvo/updatepayload.go
@@ -175,7 +175,6 @@ func (r *payloadRetriever) fetchUpdatePayloadToDir(ctx context.Context, dir stri
 							Requests: corev1.ResourceList{
 								corev1.ResourceCPU:              resource.MustParse("10m"),
 								corev1.ResourceMemory:           resource.MustParse("50Mi"),
-								corev1.ResourceEphemeralStorage: resource.MustParse("2Mi"),
 							},
 						},
 					}},