The software versions of the clusters in the existing partnership do not support a partnership with a cluster that has the software version of the remote cluster with which you are attempting to create a partnership. If a cluster at version 5.1.0 or later is already in a partnership with another cluster at version 5.1.0 or later, you can only add a partnership to a cluster at version 5.1.0 or later, and cannot add a partnership to a cluster at version 4.3.1 or earlier. If a cluster at version 5.1.0 or later is already in a partnership with another cluster at version 4.3.1 or earlier, you cannot add another partnership while the partnership with the cluster at version 4.3.1 exists. If a cluster is not in a partnership, you can create a partnership between it and a cluster at any version. One scenario in which this error occurs is when you attempt to add a partnership with a remote cluster at version 4.3.1 or earlier to a cluster at software version 5.1.0 or later that is already in partnership with another cluster at software version 5.1.0 or later.
Either upgrade the downlevel cluster software version to a version that supports this task or remove all existing partnerships from the cluster to which you want to partner the cluster that has the downlevel software version, and resubmit the task.