Hi Geode dev, I've opened ticket about mixing cache.xml and cluster configuration https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GEODE-7025
According to some comments on tickets( https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GEODE-6772?focusedCommentId=16869670&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Acomment-tabpanel#comment-16869670 ) and testing I think that we need to document this behaviors. I add two proposals to the ticket, so we can proceed with one of them if you agree, or if you have any other idea to resolve this problem. Thanks and BR, Mario