How can I filter the result of Get-PhysicalDisk by both CanPool=$True and IsPartial=$False

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I'm just learning PowerShell, so I'm a bit green.I want to filter the output of Get-PhysicalDisk by 'CanPool=$True and IsPartial=$False'&nbsp; and use that as the input argument to&nbsp;New-StoragePool in the&nbsp;-PhysicalDisks argument.I can use the -CanPool argument, but I also need to exclude items where IsPartial=$FalseThis works fine when just filtering by CanPool:&nbsp;&nbsp;$PhysicalDisks = Get-PhysicalDisk -CanPool $true
$StoragePool = New-StoragePool -FriendlyName "DataStoragePool" -StorageSubsystemFriendlyName "Windows Storage*" -PhysicalDisks $PhysicalDisks&nbsp;&nbsp;I've tried this to filter by CanPool and IsPartial but I get a conversion error in the call to New-StoragePool.&nbsp;&nbsp;$PhysicalDisks = Get-PhysicalDisk | Select-Object FriendlyName, SerialNumber, CanPool, Size, IsPartial | Where-Object {$_.IsPartial -eq $False -and $_.IsPartial -eq $False}
$StoragePool = New-StoragePool -FriendlyName "DataStoragePool" -StorageSubsystemFriendlyName "Windows Storage*" -PhysicalDisks $PhysicalDisks&nbsp;&nbsp;The error I get is this:&nbsp;&nbsp;New-StoragePool : Cannot process argument transformation on parameter 'PhysicalDisks'. Cannot convert the "@{FriendlyName=NVMe 
Amazon Elastic B; SerialNumber=vol0e91db9293994ab3a_00000001.; CanPool=True; Size=53687091200; IsPartial=False}" value of type 
"Selected.Microsoft.Management.Infrastructure.CimInstance" to type "Microsoft.Management.Infrastructure.CimInstance".
At C:\Viavi\PowerShell\CreateDataVolume.ps1:59 char:132
+ ... ubsystemFriendlyName "Windows Storage*" -PhysicalDisks $PhysicalDisks
+                                                            ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidData: (:) [New-StoragePool], ParameterBindingArgumentTransformationException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : ParameterArgumentTransformationError,New-StoragePool&nbsp;There must be an easy way to do this? Any suggestions?

todd_lange · Answer

FYI - Maybe not very elegant, but I found this works:$PhysicalDisks = Get-PhysicalDisk -CanPool $true
$PhysicalDisksFiltered = @()
foreach ($disk in $PhysicalDisks) {
    if ($disk.IsPartial -ne $true) {
        $PhysicalDisksFilter += $disk
    }
}
$StoragePool = New-StoragePool -FriendlyName "DataStoragePool" -StorageSubsystemFriendlyName "Windows Storage*" -PhysicalDisks $PhysicalDisksFiltered

jonathan_allen · Answer

(Not got any disks I can check your parameter values on here) Does this give you a boost ?Get-PhysicalDisk -CanPool $false |where {-not $_.ispartial }&nbsp;

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