Enabling NetApp Aggregate Encryption (NAE) or NetApp Volume Encryption (NVE) does not have any effects on the functionality of symlinks. In the context of ONTAP, which allows both CIFS and NFS clients...Enabling NetApp Aggregate Encryption (NAE) or NetApp Volume Encryption (NVE) does not have any effects on the functionality of symlinks. In the context of ONTAP, which allows both CIFS and NFS clients to access the same datastore, symlinks can exist within volumes holding shares, other volumes on the Storage Virtual Machine (SVM), or even volumes on other SVMs. For further details on NVE and NAE encryption and their impact on data encryption, I recommend referring to the following resources:
