Why migration from standalone to hosted engine is failing with error "Please activate the master Storage Domain first"

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Migrating a standalone machine to the hosted engine with option --restore-from-file=backup/file_name is failing with error Failed to attach Storage due to an error on the Data Center master Storage Domain.\n-Please activate the master Storage Domain first.

Environment

  • Red Hat Virtualization 4.2.

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