virt-manager is unable to create an image in a storage pool with "storagePoolLookupByName" errors

Issue

• virt-manager is unable to create an image in a storage pool with "storagePoolLookupByName" errors
• When connected to two libvirt hosts, creating storage as part of a new VM definition with "attach existing storage" fails
• The following error is displayed:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 96, in cb_wrapper
    callback(asyncjob, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/createvol.py", line 243, in _async_vol_create
    newpool = newconn.storagePoolLookupByName(self.parent_pool.get_name())
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'storagePoolLookupByName'