diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 62910c73..8cc3300f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ jobs:
         sed -i 's/#HEAP_NEWSIZE="800M"/HEAP_NEWSIZE="200M"/' ~/.ccm/test_cluster/node1/conf/cassandra-env.sh
         # remove the ThreadPriorityPolicy option for cases where we run with java 11
         sed -i 's/-XX:ThreadPriorityPolicy=42//' ~/.ccm/test_cluster/node1/conf/jvm.options || true
-        sed -i 's/-XX:ThreadPriorityPolicy=42//' ~/.ccm/test_cluster/node1/conf/jvm8-serve.options || true
+        sed -i 's/-XX:ThreadPriorityPolicy=42//' ~/.ccm/test_cluster/node1/conf/jvm8-server.options || true
         ccm start -v
         ccm showlastlog|tail -100
         ccm stop
@@ -253,10 +253,15 @@ jobs:
             wget https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/datastax/cassandra/cassandra-driver-core/3.11.5/cassandra-driver-core-3.11.5-shaded.jar
           )
         fi
+        if [ $? -eq 0 ]
+        then
+          # exclude the DSE scenario
+          MAYBE_EXCLUDE_DSE_SCENARIO="--tags=~@29"
+        fi
         if [ "${{ matrix.it-backend }}" == "s3" ]
         then
           # AWS S3 Storage tests
-          ./run_integration_tests.sh -v --s3 --no-local --cassandra-version=${{ matrix.cassandra-version }}
+          ./run_integration_tests.sh -v --s3 --no-local --cassandra-version=${{ matrix.cassandra-version }} ${MAYBE_EXCLUDE_DSE_SCENARIO}
         elif [ "${{ matrix.it-backend }}" == "gcs" ]
         then
           # Google Cloud Storage tests
@@ -297,11 +302,6 @@ jobs:
         mv tests/integration/.coverage .
         poetry run coverage xml
 
-    - name: Setup tmate session
-      if: ${{ failure() }}
-      uses: mxschmitt/action-tmate@v3
-      timeout-minutes: 15
-
     - uses: codecov/codecov-action@v1
       name: Report code coverage