diff --git a/contrail_provisioning/database/setup.py b/contrail_provisioning/database/setup.py
index d1f9e040..bda72598 100755
--- a/contrail_provisioning/database/setup.py
+++ b/contrail_provisioning/database/setup.py
@@ -193,6 +193,9 @@ def fixup_cassandra_config_files(self):
               % (env_file))
         local("sudo sed -i 's/# JVM_OPTS=\"\$JVM_OPTS -Xloggc:\/var\/log\/cassandra\/gc-`date +%%s`.log\"/JVM_OPTS=\"\$JVM_OPTS -Xloggc:\/var\/log\/cassandra\/gc-`date +%%s`.log\"/g' %s" \
               % (env_file))
+        # change < to -lt for numeric comparison
+        local("sudo sed -i 's/if \\[ \\\"\\$JVM_VERSION\\\" \\\\< \\\"1.8\\\" \\] && \\[ \\\"\\$JVM_PATCH_VERSION\\\" \\\\< \\\"25\\\" \\] ; \
+then/if [ \"\\$JVM_VERSION\" \\\\< \"1.8\" ] \\&\\& [ \"\\$JVM_PATCH_VERSION\" -lt \"25\" ] ; then/g' %s" % (env_file))
         local("sudo sed -i 's/MaxTenuringThreshold=.*\"/MaxTenuringThreshold=30\"/g' %s" % (env_file))
 
     def fixup_config_files(self):