@JKnott I tend to heir on the side of caution when it comes to using terminology I'm not 100% familiar with, but I have the basics down that's for sure. Regardless, after some extensive troubleshooting I got rid of the Aruba switch and swapped it out with a Ubiquiti. Had my network infrastructure team troubleshoot the Aruba... nobody could get it working. They let me know about how others have not been able to use Aruba equipment in the past, so i chalked it up to the switch.

Everything should be the same as any TAP bridge. You'll just have OPT and LAN on the same switch VLAN.

@Derelict thanks a lot, will look into it asap