This is enabled by default.

The application servers use the machine account when creating an SMB connection. Because all SMB access requires that the Windows user successfully map to a UNIX user account or to the default UNIX user account, ONTAP must be able to map the application server’s machine account to the default UNIX user account.

Additionally, SQL Server uses a domain user as the SQL Server service account. The service account must also map to the default UNIX user.

If you want to use automatic node referrals for access to data other than SQL server database files, you must create a separate SVM for that data.

This privilege is assigned to the SMB server local BUILTIN\Administrators group.

To provide NDOs for application servers using continuously available SMB connections, the volume containing the share must be an NTFS volume. Moreover, it must always have been an NTFS volume. You cannot change a mixed security-style volume or UNIX security-style volume to an NTFS security-style volume and directly use it for NDOs over SMB shares. If you change a mixed security-style volume to an NTFS security style volume and intend to use it for NDOs over SMB shares, you must manually place an ACL at the top of the volume and propagate that ACL to all contained files and folders. Otherwise, virtual machine migrations or database file exports and imports where files are moved to another volume can fail if either the source or the destination volumes were initially created as mixed or UNIX security-style volumes and later changed to NTFS security style.

The volume on which the SQL Server database files reside must be large enough to hold the database directory structure and all contained files residing within the share.