diff --git a/conf/README.md b/conf/README.md
index 2380696842b3..b272d4180647 100644
--- a/conf/README.md
+++ b/conf/README.md
@@ -199,6 +199,7 @@ higher priority).
 * `skip_ocp_deployment` - Skip the OCP deployment step or not (Default: false)
 * `skip_ocs_deployment` - Skip the OCS deployment step or not (Default: false)
 * `ocs_version` - Version of OCS that is being deployed
+* `acm_version` - Version of acm to be used for this run (applicable mostly to DR scenarios)
 * `vm_template` - VMWare template to use for RHCOS images
 * `fio_storageutilization_min_mbps` - Minimal write speed of FIO used in workload_fio_storageutilization
 * `TF_LOG_LEVEL` - Terraform log level
diff --git a/ocs_ci/framework/pytest_customization/ocscilib.py b/ocs_ci/framework/pytest_customization/ocscilib.py
index c8efcb441ab4..20ce8701a5be 100644
--- a/ocs_ci/framework/pytest_customization/ocscilib.py
+++ b/ocs_ci/framework/pytest_customization/ocscilib.py
@@ -262,6 +262,11 @@ def pytest_addoption(parser):
             "(e.g. quay.io/rhceph-dev/ocs-olm-operator:latest-4.3)"
         ),
     )
+    parser.addoption(
+        "--acm-version",
+        dest="acm_version",
+        help="acm version(e.g. 2.8) to be used for the current run",
+    )
     parser.addoption(
         "--upgrade-acm-version",
         dest="upgrade_acm_version",
@@ -665,6 +670,9 @@ def process_cluster_cli_params(config):
     if custom_kubeconfig_location:
         os.environ["KUBECONFIG"] = custom_kubeconfig_location
         ocsci_config.RUN["kubeconfig"] = custom_kubeconfig_location
+    acm_version = get_cli_param(config, "--acm-version")
+    if acm_version:
+        ocsci_config.ENV_DATA["acm_version"] = acm_version
     upgrade_acm_version = get_cli_param(config, "--upgrade-acm-version")
     if upgrade_acm_version:
         ocsci_config.UPGRADE["upgrade_acm_version"] = upgrade_acm_version
diff --git a/ocs_ci/utility/utils.py b/ocs_ci/utility/utils.py
index 8db80111bd02..94e41fe6fd47 100644
--- a/ocs_ci/utility/utils.py
+++ b/ocs_ci/utility/utils.py
@@ -5041,7 +5041,7 @@ def sum_of_two_storage_sizes(storage_size1, storage_size2, convert_size=1024):
     size = size1 + size2
     new_storage_size = f"{size}{unit}"
     return new_storage_size
-    
+
 
 def is_z_stream_upgrade():
     """