diff --git a/.env b/.env
index 93ad551c..25947d78 100644
--- a/.env
+++ b/.env
@@ -58,10 +58,9 @@ SPDK_CENTOS_REPO_VER="9.0-21.el9"
 
 # Ceph Cluster
 CEPH_CLUSTER_VERSION="${CEPH_VERSION}"
-CEPH_BRANCH=ceph-nvmeof-mon
-CEPH_SHA=9ea3798e13aefca4c462ddc4d11b525236aebadb
+CEPH_BRANCH=wip-baum-20240725-00-centos9-only
+CEPH_SHA=0ec90b1e61a7489b13d6d8432156a0417f35db7f
 
-CEPH_VSTART_ARGS="--memstore"
 CEPH_DEVEL_MGR_PATH=../ceph
 
 # Demo settings