diff --git a/.env b/.env
index 4eba292e..6b9d4cc0 100644
--- a/.env
+++ b/.env
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ SPDK_CENTOS_REPO_VER="9.0-21.el9"
 
 # Ceph Cluster
 CEPH_CLUSTER_VERSION="${CEPH_VERSION}"
-CEPH_BRANCH=main
+CEPH_BRANCH=squid-nvmeof
 CEPH_SHA=latest
 
 CEPH_DEVEL_MGR_PATH=../ceph