diff --git a/.env b/.env
index 93ad551c..739de118 100644
--- a/.env
+++ b/.env
@@ -59,9 +59,8 @@ SPDK_CENTOS_REPO_VER="9.0-21.el9"
 # Ceph Cluster
 CEPH_CLUSTER_VERSION="${CEPH_VERSION}"
 CEPH_BRANCH=ceph-nvmeof-mon
-CEPH_SHA=9ea3798e13aefca4c462ddc4d11b525236aebadb
+CEPH_SHA=c33bdf1a6086e41d905846060387dcb52b16c3ec
 
-CEPH_VSTART_ARGS="--memstore"
 CEPH_DEVEL_MGR_PATH=../ceph
 
 # Demo settings
diff --git a/Dockerfile.ceph b/Dockerfile.ceph
index 3b0f62bb..faa090c0 100644
--- a/Dockerfile.ceph
+++ b/Dockerfile.ceph
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ ENV MON=1 \
     RGW=0 \
     NFS=0 \
     CEPH_PORT=10000 \
-    CEPH_VSTART_ARGS="--memstore"
+    CEPH_VSTART_ARGS="--memstore -o mon_nvmeofgw_in_service=true"
 
 ENV CEPH_BIN=/usr/bin \
     CEPH_LIB=/usr/lib64/ceph \