[CI] MixedClusterClientYamlTestSuiteIT class failing

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Build Scans:

• elasticsearch-periodic #7266 / 7.0.1_bwc
• elasticsearch-periodic #7217 / 7.4.2_bwc

Reproduction Line:

./gradlew ':qa:mixed-cluster:v7.0.1#mixedClusterTest' -Dtests.class="org.elasticsearch.backwards.MixedClusterClientYamlTestSuiteIT" -Dtests.method="test {p0=cat.aliases/10_basic/Simple alias (pre 7.4.0)}" -Dtests.seed=392F0FD71F728FE0 -Dtests.bwc=true -Dtests.locale=nl-BE -Dtests.timezone=America/Monterrey -Druntime.java=22

Applicable branches:
7.17

Reproduces locally?:
N/A

Failure History:
See dashboard

Failure Message:

java.lang.RuntimeException: Failure at [cat.aliases/10_basic:100]: NodeSelector [version ranges [[6.0.0-alpha1 - 7.3.99]]] rejected all nodes, living [[host=http://127.0.0.1:46115, bound=[http://[::1]:44671, http://127.0.0.1:46115], name=v7.0.1-1, version=7.17.29, roles=data,data_cold,data_content,data_frozen,data_hot,data_warm,ingest,master,ml,remote_cluster_client,transform, attributes={ml.machine_memory=[126604214272], upgraded=[true], xpack.installed=[true], transform.node=[true], testattr=[test], ml.max_open_jobs=[512], ml.max_jvm_size=[536870912]}], [host=http://127.0.0.1:37565, bound=[http://127.0.0.1:37565, http://[::1]:37963], name=v7.0.1-0, version=7.17.29, roles=data,data_cold,data_content,data_frozen,data_hot,data_warm,ingest,master,ml,remote_cluster_client,transform, attributes={upgraded=[true], ml.machine_memory=[126604214272], xpack.installed=[true], transform.node=[true], testattr=[test], ml.max_open_jobs=[512], ml.max_jvm_size=[536870912]}]] and dead []

Issue Reasons:

• [7.17] 2 failures in class org.elasticsearch.backwards.MixedClusterClientYamlTestSuiteIT (1.5% fail rate in 134 executions)
• [7.17] 2 failures in pipeline elasticsearch-periodic (25.0% fail rate in 8 executions)

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