diff --git a/.env b/.env
index ce71c78e15b..394208af7fd 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-vallari-test-7Jan-centos9-only
+CEPH_SHA=e06e30d53f0e5f4826c1e243ccea568c8d010dec
 
 CEPH_DEVEL_MGR_PATH=../ceph