diff --git a/src/rm/RequestManagerAllocate.cc b/src/rm/RequestManagerAllocate.cc
index 7228ee337b..9aaeef590e 100644
--- a/src/rm/RequestManagerAllocate.cc
+++ b/src/rm/RequestManagerAllocate.cc
@@ -95,6 +95,8 @@ void RequestManager::VirtualMachineAllocate::execute(
             VirtualMachineAllocate::ipool->authorize_disk(vector,&ar);
         }
 
+        vectors.clear();
+
         num = vm_template->get("NIC",vectors);
 
         for(int i=0; i<num; i++)