Thank you for explaining, as that's really helpful for my own learning

Yeah, it felt like a bit of a dumb suggestion for someone in your position. Might work for someone with a less..robust level of need? Works for me with a QNAP QSW-2104-2T (this doesn't meet your criteria fwiw, unmanaged, not sfp+ but there is an sfp+ version that's still unmanaged) does that really matter if you have a pfsense box?

Edit: QSW-2104-2S is the double sfp+ version.

Er...Asus RE-BE88 technically meets that criteria but that's a router...I think it even does the VLAN stuff?

TrueNAS Scale will have Docker in the next release in August, along with the ability to expand Vdevs.

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