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# Add an external storage volume

You can add to the appliance a storage volume that exists on a storage system under management of the appliance.

### Prerequisites

- Minimum required session ID privileges: Infrastructure administrator or Storage administrator

- The appliance manages the storage system and storage pool that contains the storage volume you want to add.

Add an external storage volume using REST APIs
Select a storage system URI. `GET /rest/storage-systems` Select a storage pool from the storage system URI you selected in step 1. `GET `{storage system URI}`/storage-pools` Add the storage volume with the information from the previous steps. `POST /rest/storage-volumes`

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