diff --git a/cluster/manager/manager.go b/cluster/manager/manager.go
index c3c56b9ca..2fad35d32 100644
--- a/cluster/manager/manager.go
+++ b/cluster/manager/manager.go
@@ -1509,7 +1509,9 @@ func (c *ClusterManager) StartWithConfiguration(
 	c.system = systemutils.New()
 
 	// Start the gossip protocol.
-	gob.Register(api.Node{})
+	// Replacing gob.Register with gob.RegisterName to avoid any issue caused due to the movement from portworx to pure-px
+	// gossip: Error in unmarshalling peer's local data. Error : gob: name not registered for interface.
+	gob.RegisterName("github.com/portworx/porx/vendor/github.com/libopenstorage/openstorage/api.Node", api.Node{})
 	quorumTimeout := types.DEFAULT_QUORUM_TIMEOUT
 	if c.config.QuorumTimeoutInSeconds > 0 {
 		quorumTimeout = time.Duration(c.config.QuorumTimeoutInSeconds) * time.Second