diff --git a/extensions/hibernate-orm/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/hibernate/orm/deployment/HibernateOrmConfigPersistenceUnit.java b/extensions/hibernate-orm/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/hibernate/orm/deployment/HibernateOrmConfigPersistenceUnit.java
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index 8b451d302230a0..960cf2a231ee1a
--- a/extensions/hibernate-orm/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/hibernate/orm/deployment/HibernateOrmConfigPersistenceUnit.java
+++ b/extensions/hibernate-orm/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/hibernate/orm/deployment/HibernateOrmConfigPersistenceUnit.java
@@ -219,6 +219,13 @@ public class HibernateOrmConfigPersistenceUnit {
     @ConfigItem(defaultValue = "true")
     public boolean secondLevelCachingEnabled;
 
+    /**
+     * This flag controls hibernate validation of entities
+     */
+
+    @ConfigItem
+    public HibernateOrmConfigPersistenceValidator validation;
+
     /**
      * Defines the method for multi-tenancy (DATABASE, NONE, SCHEMA). The complete list of allowed values is available in the
      * https://javadoc.io/doc/org.hibernate/hibernate-core/5.6.10.Final/org/hibernate/MultiTenancyStrategy.html[Hibernate ORM
@@ -496,4 +503,17 @@ public enum IdentifierQuotingStrategy {
         ALL_EXCEPT_COLUMN_DEFINITIONS,
         ONLY_KEYWORDS
     }
+
+    @ConfigGroup
+    public static class HibernateOrmConfigPersistenceValidator {
+
+        /**
+         * Enables the Bean Validation integration
+         */
+
+        @ConfigItem(defaultValue = "true")
+        public boolean enabled;
+
+    }
+
 }
diff --git a/extensions/hibernate-orm/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/hibernate/orm/deployment/HibernateOrmProcessor.java b/extensions/hibernate-orm/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/hibernate/orm/deployment/HibernateOrmProcessor.java
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index cbcf48eefe3714..cd98bf5ae3d65a
--- a/extensions/hibernate-orm/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/hibernate/orm/deployment/HibernateOrmProcessor.java
+++ b/extensions/hibernate-orm/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/hibernate/orm/deployment/HibernateOrmProcessor.java
@@ -1183,7 +1183,11 @@ private static void producePersistenceUnitDescriptorFromConfig(
         // Hibernate Validator integration: we force the callback mode to have bootstrap errors reported rather than validation ignored
         // if there is any issue when bootstrapping Hibernate Validator.
         if (capabilities.isPresent(Capability.HIBERNATE_VALIDATOR)) {
-            descriptor.getProperties().setProperty(AvailableSettings.JPA_VALIDATION_MODE, ValidationMode.CALLBACK.name());
+            if (persistenceUnitConfig.validation.enabled) {
+                descriptor.getProperties().setProperty(AvailableSettings.JPA_VALIDATION_MODE, ValidationMode.CALLBACK.name());
+            } else {
+                descriptor.getProperties().setProperty(AvailableSettings.JPA_VALIDATION_MODE, ValidationMode.NONE.name());
+            }
         }
 
         // Collect the storage engines if MySQL or MariaDB
diff --git a/extensions/hibernate-orm/deployment/src/test/java/io/quarkus/hibernate/orm/validation/JPAValidationDisabledTestCase.java b/extensions/hibernate-orm/deployment/src/test/java/io/quarkus/hibernate/orm/validation/JPAValidationDisabledTestCase.java
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000000..1b42aa88d13cb2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extensions/hibernate-orm/deployment/src/test/java/io/quarkus/hibernate/orm/validation/JPAValidationDisabledTestCase.java
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+package io.quarkus.hibernate.orm.validation;
+
+import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.is;
+
+import javax.transaction.Transactional;
+
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.extension.RegisterExtension;
+
+import io.quarkus.hibernate.orm.MyEntity;
+import io.quarkus.test.QuarkusUnitTest;
+import io.restassured.RestAssured;
+
+public class JPAValidationDisabledTestCase {
+
+    @RegisterExtension
+    static QuarkusUnitTest runner = new QuarkusUnitTest()
+            .withApplicationRoot((jar) -> jar
+                    .addClasses(MyEntity.class, JPATestValidationResource.class)
+                    .addAsResource("application-validation-disabled.properties", "application.properties"));
+
+    //define an empty import.sql file
+
+    @Test
+    @Transactional
+    public void testValidEntity() {
+        String entityName = MyEntity.ENTITY_NAME_TOO_LONG;
+        RestAssured.given().body(entityName).when().post("/validation").then()
+                .body(is("OK"));
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/extensions/hibernate-orm/deployment/src/test/resources/application-validation-disabled.properties b/extensions/hibernate-orm/deployment/src/test/resources/application-validation-disabled.properties
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000000..bf76287adc5daf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extensions/hibernate-orm/deployment/src/test/resources/application-validation-disabled.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+quarkus.datasource.db-kind=h2
+quarkus.datasource.jdbc.url=jdbc:h2:mem:test
+
+#quarkus.hibernate-orm.log.sql=true
+quarkus.hibernate-orm.validation.enabled=false
+quarkus.hibernate-orm.database.generation=drop-and-create