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# Create access controls for volumes

Access controls can be set on specific volumes within a storage system and those volumes can be assigned to a specific host.

## Prerequisites

See Roles and associated permissions to determine the user roles that can perform this task.

## About this task

Administrators, Storage Admins, and Security Admins can set access controls on specific volumes within a storage system and assign those volumes to a specific host. When set, only that host can see the volumes, and perform the granted operations. Other hosts that are connected to that storage system do not see those volumes. This behavior eliminates the possibility of one host inadvertently performing operations on volumes that belong to someone else.

To set up access controls:

## Steps

1. Create an access control group. See Create access groups.
2. Add to the group one or more hosts (access name) and unique IDs.
   Each host has a unique ID. A group can contain one or more hosts. See Add access ID to access groups.
3. Create one or more pools of volumes.
   Specific volumes can belong to only one pool. See Create access pools.
4. Create one or more access control entries.
   An access control entry associates a pool with a group, and grants the access control types. See Create access control entries.