diff --git a/roles/validate-tempest/README.md b/roles/validate-tempest/README.md
index f96b709d6..ff04f9e39 100644
--- a/roles/validate-tempest/README.md
+++ b/roles/validate-tempest/README.md
@@ -22,10 +22,8 @@ Role Variables
 * `tempest_config`: false/true - whether to prepare the script which configures and runs tempest or not
 * `skip_file_src`: path to skip tests file, set it empty if running without skip list: `skip_file_src=''`
 * `tempest_workers`: int - how many parallel workers to run (default is number of cores)
-* `tempest_isolated`: false/true - if to run every test id in separate test runner (default is false)
 * `tempest_tests_file`: path to file - path to file with tests to run
 * `tempest_until_failure`: false/true - default is false, repeat the run again and again until failure occurs
-* `tempest_failing`: false/true - default is false, run only tests known to be failing
 * `tempest_exit_on_failure`: true/false - whether to exit from role with tempest exit code (default: true)
 * `tempestmail_config`: config.yaml - name of config file for tempestmail script
 * `tempest_track_resources`: true/false - whether to save the state of resources after tempest run (default: true)
diff --git a/roles/validate-tempest/defaults/main.yml b/roles/validate-tempest/defaults/main.yml
index d0e890326..26b26c059 100644
--- a/roles/validate-tempest/defaults/main.yml
+++ b/roles/validate-tempest/defaults/main.yml
@@ -25,9 +25,7 @@ post_tempest: true
 tempest_format: packages # venv or packages
 skip_file_src: "skip_file.j2"
 skip_file: skip_file
-tempest_isolated: false
 tempest_until_failure: false
-tempest_failing: false
 tempest_exit_on_failure: true
 # Set tempest_version for different release
 # For forked-tempest, we have branched name in synced with releases.
diff --git a/roles/validate-tempest/templates/run-tempest.sh.j2 b/roles/validate-tempest/templates/run-tempest.sh.j2
index 9289defef..9e8ddd191 100644
--- a/roles/validate-tempest/templates/run-tempest.sh.j2
+++ b/roles/validate-tempest/templates/run-tempest.sh.j2
@@ -34,10 +34,8 @@ $TEMPESTCLI cleanup --init-saved-state
 
 ( $OSTESTR '({{ test_regex }})' --no-pretty --subunit {% if skip_file_src != '' %}--blacklist_file={{ working_dir }}/{{ skip_file }}{% endif %}
 {% if tempest_workers is defined %} --concurrency {{ tempest_workers }} {% endif %}
-{% if tempest_isolated|bool %} --isolated {% endif %}
 {% if tempest_tests_file is defined %} --load-list={{ tempest_tests_file }} {% endif %}
 {% if tempest_until_failure|bool %} --until-failure {% endif %}
-{% if tempest_failing|bool %} --failing {% endif %}
 ) | tee >( $S2JXML ) | $SUBUNIT
 
 ## Check which all tenants would be modified in the tempest run