diff --git a/.ci/clusters/values-oxia.yaml b/.ci/clusters/values-oxia.yaml
index c7aca12c..51afd8c5 100644
--- a/.ci/clusters/values-oxia.yaml
+++ b/.ci/clusters/values-oxia.yaml
@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@
 components:
   zookeeper: false
   oxia: true
+  # disable functions for oxia tests since there's no support for Oxia in 
+  # BookKeeperPackagesStorage which requires Zookeeper
+  functions: false
 
 oxia:
   initialShardCount: 1