This is just a minor clarification question. I've been experimenting with switching over a few clients from UniFi to Omada. Routing and general network services is handled by OPNsense. None of the sites are big, less then 20 switches+waps, 20-70 VLANs, less than 400 clients max at any given time. Overall it's been reasonably pleasant and smooth, but one curiosity I've come across in the Omada GUI is in the switch config where it won't allow "enabling" more then 16 VLANs. In terms of switch VLAN support, a minimum of 64 is the lowest I've seen in a long time and most (including UI switches) support 256 or more, and the TP-Link Jetstream switches indeed specify 4096 max vlan groups.

So that's left me confused about where the 16 is coming from and what that setting is even for. Even if a given VLAN isn't "enabled", if I set the port profile to tag it everything on the face of it seems normal, the connected device is on the right VLAN, and I can make port profiles that include >16 VLANs as tagged networks and apply them. Which is all as expected. But after playing with a few switches standalone I know 16 protocol VLANs is the max, even though it looks like that isn't exposed (yet?) in Omada vs the switch native GUI/CLI. Is the config somehow related to that and can just be ignored for normal traffic with WAPs/switches handling up to 4k networks?

Thanks so much for any clarification there!