[halo37253]

Honestly I hate builds like this.

I'd rock ESXI as hypervisor, and Truenas as the Storage environment.

Passthrough the SSD's and any Disk controller to TrueNas. I always recommend HDD Array to backup your primary SSD array. This could have all been avoided with ZFS, along with future worry of bitrot.

Then you can run your Primary Linux VM for Docker, and another other standalone Linux VM's you may need. You'll want to keep Truenas on a datastore connected to ESXI, but the rest of the storage back be kept on Truenas and fed back into esxi.

Not only keeps your system portable for future upgrade paths, but keeps your system reliable.

Opensource is not always the best route to take.