diff --git a/qa/suites/rados/thrash-old-clients/1-install/luminous-v1only.yaml b/qa/suites/rados/thrash-old-clients/1-install/luminous-v1only.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index f29bb3527bf..00000000000
--- a/qa/suites/rados/thrash-old-clients/1-install/luminous-v1only.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-overrides:
-  ceph:
-    mon_bind_msgr2: false
-    log-ignorelist:
-      - \(MON_DOWN\)
-    conf:
-      global:
-        ms type: async
-        ms bind msgr2: false
-tasks:
-- install:
-    branch: luminous
-    exclude_packages:
-      - librados3
-      - ceph-mgr-dashboard
-      - ceph-mgr-diskprediction-local
-      - ceph-mgr-rook
-      - ceph-mgr-cephadm
-      - cephadm
-      - ceph-immutable-object-cache
-      - ceph-base
-      - python3-rados
-      - python3-rgw
-      - python3-rbd
-      - python3-cephfs
-      - librados-devel
-    extra_packages:
-      - librados2
-      - python-rados
-      - python-rgw
-      - python-rbd
-      - python-cephfs
diff --git a/qa/suites/rados/thrash-old-clients/1-install/luminous.yaml b/qa/suites/rados/thrash-old-clients/1-install/luminous.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index f51a883fa5f..00000000000
--- a/qa/suites/rados/thrash-old-clients/1-install/luminous.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-overrides:
-  ceph:
-    mon_bind_msgr2: false
-    log-ignorelist:
-      - \(MON_DOWN\)
-    conf:
-      global:
-        mon warn on msgr2 not enabled: false
-tasks:
-- install:
-    branch: luminous
-    exclude_packages:
-      - librados3
-      - ceph-mgr-dashboard
-      - ceph-mgr-diskprediction-local
-      - ceph-mgr-rook
-      - ceph-mgr-cephadm
-      - cephadm
-      - ceph-immutable-object-cache
-      - ceph-base
-      - python3-rados
-      - python3-rgw
-      - python3-rbd
-      - python3-cephfs
-      - librados-devel
-    extra_packages:
-      - librados2
-      - python-rados
-      - python-rgw
-      - python-rbd
-      - python-cephfs
diff --git a/qa/suites/rados/thrash-old-clients/1-install/mimic-v1only.yaml b/qa/suites/rados/thrash-old-clients/1-install/mimic-v1only.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index a37b451e59e..00000000000
--- a/qa/suites/rados/thrash-old-clients/1-install/mimic-v1only.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-overrides:
-  ceph:
-    mon_bind_msgr2: false
-    log-ignorelist:
-      - \(MON_DOWN\)
-    conf:
-      global:
-        ms type: async
-        ms bind msgr2: false
-tasks:
-- install:
-    branch: mimic
-    exclude_packages:
-      - librados3
-      - ceph-mgr-dashboard
-      - ceph-mgr-diskprediction-local
-      - ceph-mgr-rook
-      - ceph-mgr-cephadm
-      - cephadm
-      - ceph-immutable-object-cache
-      - ceph-base
-      - python3-rados
-      - python3-rgw
-      - python3-rbd
-      - python3-cephfs
-      - librados-devel
-    extra_packages:
-      - librados2
-      - python-rados
-      - python-rgw
-      - python-rbd
-      - python-cephfs
diff --git a/qa/suites/rados/thrash-old-clients/1-install/mimic.yaml b/qa/suites/rados/thrash-old-clients/1-install/mimic.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 07aefd15ccc..00000000000
--- a/qa/suites/rados/thrash-old-clients/1-install/mimic.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-overrides:
-  ceph:
-    mon_bind_msgr2: false
-    log-ignorelist:
-      - \(MON_DOWN\)
-    conf:
-      global:
-        ms type: async
-        mon warn on msgr2 not enabled: false
-tasks:
-- install:
-    branch: mimic
-    exclude_packages:
-      - librados3
-      - ceph-mgr-dashboard
-      - ceph-mgr-diskprediction-local
-      - ceph-mgr-rook
-      - ceph-mgr-cephadm
-      - cephadm
-      - ceph-immutable-object-cache
-      - ceph-base
-      - python3-rados
-      - python3-rgw
-      - python3-rbd
-      - python3-cephfs
-      - librados-devel
-    extra_packages:
-      - librados2
-      - python-rados
-      - python-rgw
-      - python-rbd
-      - python-cephfs