Please help me determine whether this is a defect or user error. 

The master storage domain "hosted_storage" was automatically imported in oVirt   
manager  when I created another new storage domain "/data", a Gluster FS volume, 
immediately after doing 'hosted-engine --deploy' on the "hosted_storage", a.k.a. 
"/engine" volume. The master storage domain transitioned to state "Locked",      
which I   believe to be an intermediate state that should have automatically     
changed to state "Active". It appears to be stuck because there has been no      
change for at least 8 hours. This may be the  cause of "ERROR                    
[org.ovirt.engine.core.dal.dbbroker.auditloghandling.AuditLogDirector]           
(org.ovirt.thread.pool-8-thread-28) [] Correlation ID: null, Call Stack: null,   
Custom Event ID: -1, Message: VDSM <host name> command failed: Cannot find       
master domain".

Self-Hosted Engine unique log hits for "hosted_storage" from /var/log/ovirt-engine/engine.log: http://pastebin.com/QaHQjB6z