We had a three-DC (asia-tokyo/europe/us) cassandra 2.2.13 cluster, AWS, IPV6
Needed to scale out the asia datacenter, which was 5 nodes, europe and us were 25 nodes We were running into bootstrapping issues where the new node failed to bootstrap/stream, it failed with "java.lang.RuntimeException: A node required to move the data consistently is down" ...even though they were all up based on nodetool status prior to adding the node. First we increased the phi_convict_threshold to 12, and that did not help. CASSANDRA-12281 appeared similar to what we had problems with, but I don't think we hit that. Somewhere in there someone wrote "For us, the workaround is either deleting the data (then bootstrap again), or increasing the ring_delay_ms. And the larger the cluster is, the longer ring_delay_ms is needed. Based on our tests, for a 40 nodes cluster, it requires ring_delay_ms to be >50seconds. For a 70 nodes cluster, >100seconds. Default is 30seconds." Given the WAN nature or our DCs, we used ring_delay_ms to 100 seconds and it finally worked. side note: During the rolling restarts for setting phi_convict_threshold we observed quite a lot of status map variance between nodes (we have a program to poll all of a datacenter or cluster's view of the gossipinfo and statuses. AWS appears to have variance in networking based on the phi_convict_threshold advice, I'm not sure if our difficulties were typical in that regard and/or if our IPV6 and/or globally distributed datacenters were exacerbating factors. We could not reproduce this in loadtest, although loadtest is only eu and us (but is IPV6)
