diff --git a/ceph-osd/templates/bin/osd/ceph-disk/_common.sh.tpl b/ceph-osd/templates/bin/osd/ceph-disk/_common.sh.tpl
index 72a2de74b..6aa44d5a5 100644
--- a/ceph-osd/templates/bin/osd/ceph-disk/_common.sh.tpl
+++ b/ceph-osd/templates/bin/osd/ceph-disk/_common.sh.tpl
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ set -ex
 eval CRUSH_FAILURE_DOMAIN_TYPE=$(cat /etc/ceph/storage.json | python -c 'import sys, json; data = json.load(sys.stdin); print(json.dumps(data["failure_domain"]))')
 eval CRUSH_FAILURE_DOMAIN_NAME=$(cat /etc/ceph/storage.json | python -c 'import sys, json; data = json.load(sys.stdin); print(json.dumps(data["failure_domain_name"]))')
 eval CRUSH_FAILURE_DOMAIN_BY_HOSTNAME=$(cat /etc/ceph/storage.json | python -c 'import sys, json; data = json.load(sys.stdin); print(json.dumps(data["failure_domain_by_hostname"]))')
+eval DEVICE_CLASS=$(cat /etc/ceph/storage.json | python -c 'import sys, json; data = json.load(sys.stdin); print(json.dumps(data["device_class"]))')
 
 if [[ $(ceph -v | egrep -q "nautilus|mimic|luminous"; echo $?) -ne 0 ]]; then
     echo "ERROR- need Luminous/Mimic/Nautilus release"
@@ -95,6 +96,7 @@ function crush_add_and_move {
 }
 
 function crush_location {
+  set_device_class
   if [ "x${CRUSH_FAILURE_DOMAIN_TYPE}" != "xhost" ]; then
     if [ "x${CRUSH_FAILURE_DOMAIN_NAME}" != "xfalse" ]; then
       crush_add_and_move "${CRUSH_FAILURE_DOMAIN_TYPE}" "${CRUSH_FAILURE_DOMAIN_NAME}"
@@ -237,3 +239,18 @@ function udev_settle {
   done
 }
 
+function set_device_class {
+  if [ ! -z "$DEVICE_CLASS" ]; then
+    if [ "x$DEVICE_CLASS" != "x$(get_device_class)" ]; then
+      ceph_cmd_retry --cluster "${CLUSTER}" --name="osd.${OSD_ID}" --keyring="${OSD_KEYRING}" \
+        osd crush rm-device-class "osd.${OSD_ID}"
+      ceph_cmd_retry --cluster "${CLUSTER}" --name="osd.${OSD_ID}" --keyring="${OSD_KEYRING}" \
+        osd crush set-device-class "${DEVICE_CLASS}" "osd.${OSD_ID}"
+    fi
+  fi
+}
+
+function get_device_class {
+  echo $(ceph_cmd_retry --cluster "${CLUSTER}" --name="osd.${OSD_ID}" --keyring="${OSD_KEYRING}" \
+    osd crush get-device-class "osd.${OSD_ID}")
+}
diff --git a/ceph-osd/templates/bin/osd/ceph-disk/_init-with-ceph-disk.sh.tpl b/ceph-osd/templates/bin/osd/ceph-disk/_init-with-ceph-disk.sh.tpl
index c6787eae8..ea94e82a1 100644
--- a/ceph-osd/templates/bin/osd/ceph-disk/_init-with-ceph-disk.sh.tpl
+++ b/ceph-osd/templates/bin/osd/ceph-disk/_init-with-ceph-disk.sh.tpl
@@ -177,6 +177,12 @@ function osd_disk_prepare {
 
   udev_settle
   ceph-disk -v prepare ${CLI_OPTS}
+
+  if [ ! -z "$DEVICE_CLASS" ]; then
+    local osd_id=$(cat "/var/lib/ceph/osd/*/whoami")
+    ceph osd crush rm-device-class osd."${osd_id}"
+    ceph osd crush set-device-class "${DEVICE_CLASS}" osd."${osd_id}"
+  fi
 }
 
 function osd_journal_create {
diff --git a/ceph-osd/templates/bin/osd/ceph-volume/_common.sh.tpl b/ceph-osd/templates/bin/osd/ceph-volume/_common.sh.tpl
index 0d01b15c7..a1f61c50e 100644
--- a/ceph-osd/templates/bin/osd/ceph-volume/_common.sh.tpl
+++ b/ceph-osd/templates/bin/osd/ceph-volume/_common.sh.tpl
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ set -ex
 eval CRUSH_FAILURE_DOMAIN_TYPE=$(cat /etc/ceph/storage.json | python -c 'import sys, json; data = json.load(sys.stdin); print(json.dumps(data["failure_domain"]))')
 eval CRUSH_FAILURE_DOMAIN_NAME=$(cat /etc/ceph/storage.json | python -c 'import sys, json; data = json.load(sys.stdin); print(json.dumps(data["failure_domain_name"]))')
 eval CRUSH_FAILURE_DOMAIN_BY_HOSTNAME=$(cat /etc/ceph/storage.json | python -c 'import sys, json; data = json.load(sys.stdin); print(json.dumps(data["failure_domain_by_hostname"]))')
+eval DEVICE_CLASS=$(cat /etc/ceph/storage.json | python -c 'import sys, json; data = json.load(sys.stdin); print(json.dumps(data["device_class"]))')
 
 if [[ $(ceph -v | egrep -q "nautilus|mimic|luminous"; echo $?) -ne 0 ]]; then
     echo "ERROR- need Luminous/Mimic/Nautilus release"
@@ -95,6 +96,7 @@ function crush_add_and_move {
 }
 
 function crush_location {
+  set_device_class
   if [ "x${CRUSH_FAILURE_DOMAIN_TYPE}" != "xhost" ]; then
     if [ "x${CRUSH_FAILURE_DOMAIN_NAME}" != "xfalse" ]; then
       crush_add_and_move "${CRUSH_FAILURE_DOMAIN_TYPE}" "${CRUSH_FAILURE_DOMAIN_NAME}"
@@ -321,3 +323,19 @@ function get_osd_wal_device_from_device {
   # Use get_lvm_tag_from_device to get the OSD WAL device from the device
   get_lvm_tag_from_device ${device} ceph.wal_device
 }
+
+function set_device_class {
+  if [ ! -z "$DEVICE_CLASS" ]; then
+    if [ "x$DEVICE_CLASS" != "x$(get_device_class)" ]; then
+      ceph_cmd_retry --cluster "${CLUSTER}" --name="osd.${OSD_ID}" --keyring="${OSD_KEYRING}" \
+        osd crush rm-device-class "osd.${OSD_ID}"
+      ceph_cmd_retry --cluster "${CLUSTER}" --name="osd.${OSD_ID}" --keyring="${OSD_KEYRING}" \
+        osd crush set-device-class "${DEVICE_CLASS}" "osd.${OSD_ID}"
+    fi
+  fi
+}
+
+function get_device_class {
+  echo $(ceph_cmd_retry --cluster "${CLUSTER}" --name="osd.${OSD_ID}" --keyring="${OSD_KEYRING}" \
+    osd crush get-device-class "osd.${OSD_ID}")
+}
diff --git a/ceph-osd/templates/bin/osd/ceph-volume/_init-with-ceph-volume.sh.tpl b/ceph-osd/templates/bin/osd/ceph-volume/_init-with-ceph-volume.sh.tpl
index 050eedf00..19a8912ea 100644
--- a/ceph-osd/templates/bin/osd/ceph-volume/_init-with-ceph-volume.sh.tpl
+++ b/ceph-osd/templates/bin/osd/ceph-volume/_init-with-ceph-volume.sh.tpl
@@ -384,6 +384,11 @@ function osd_disk_prepare {
     CLI_OPTS="${CLI_OPTS} --data ${OSD_DEVICE} --journal ${OSD_JOURNAL}"
     udev_settle
   fi
+
+  if [ ! -z "$DEVICE_CLASS" ]; then
+    CLI_OPTS="${CLI_OPTS} --crush-device-class ${DEVICE_CLASS}"
+  fi
+
   if [[ ${CEPH_DISK_USED} -eq 1 ]]; then
     CLI_OPTS="${CLI_OPTS} --data ${OSD_DEVICE}"
     ceph-volume simple scan --force ${OSD_DEVICE}$(sgdisk --print ${OSD_DEVICE} | grep "F800" | awk '{print $1}')
diff --git a/ceph-osd/values.yaml b/ceph-osd/values.yaml
index 09e1bcd25..a9545da8b 100644
--- a/ceph-osd/values.yaml
+++ b/ceph-osd/values.yaml
@@ -208,6 +208,10 @@ conf:
     failure_domain_by_hostname: "false"
     failure_domain_name: "false"
 
+    # Note: You can override the device class by adding the value (e.g., hdd, ssd or nvme).
+    # Leave it empty if you don't need to modify the device class.
+    device_class: ""
+
     # NOTE(portdirect): for homogeneous clusters the `osd` key can be used to
     # define OSD pods that will be deployed across the cluster.
     # when specifing whole disk (/dev/sdf) for journals, ceph-osd chart will create