i have for sometime been using a lab with 4 supermicro mini servers to try to learn more and I had a reasonably good setup with cisco switch and pfsense vm handling routing and vlans.
Recently I switched to unifi usg and their 48 port poe switch to do things which required a POE switch. After a few changes I thought I had reconfigured everything to handle it as before with pfsense (vlan 200 192.168.200 for management network and everything else on main subnet 192.168.50). this was having intermittent connectivity issues when trying to connect to vcsa which was ip address 192.168.200.5 but was using vm network not the management network vlan 200. I started to realize from google searches that the vcsa was not intended to be on that management network if I understood the documents correctly. so forgive the confusion and simplicity of the question but i have not been able to find an explanation i understand well to adapt it to the new unifi switch. If the vcsa is to be accessible from my laptop which uses wifi to connect and it typically on the 192.168.50 segment, do I have to make a separate management vlan wifi network allowing vlan 200 (with 192.168.200 range) and connect my laptop to that wifi network in order to access the vcsa which is on the 192.168.200 ip range? if I recall correctly when I had prior setup and had originally had the vcsa IP on the 192.168.50 network it could not connect to the esxi hosts 192.168.200.7 through 192.168.200.10. Essentially my question comes down to the fact that if the vcsa cannot use the management network (its not ever a choice during install only VM Network) what is the best arrangement to allow it access to the management vlan and the laptop I connect from to adminster the system. TIA