diff --git a/.env b/.env
index a241771e961..37723cbdbf9 100644
--- a/.env
+++ b/.env
@@ -65,8 +65,8 @@ SPDK_CENTOS_REPO_VER="9.0-30.el9"
 
 # Ceph Cluster
 CEPH_CLUSTER_VERSION="${CEPH_VERSION}"
-CEPH_BRANCH=main
-CEPH_SHA=latest
+CEPH_BRANCH=wip-leonidc1501-fast-failover-cr
+CEPH_SHA=b49ac690d97c8e1659fc58c91cc278403d720c3b
 
 CEPH_DEVEL_MGR_PATH=../ceph