You create a Vserver for iSCSI LUNS. When you issue the Vserver iscsi show command it reports: "This table is currently empty". What do you need to do to see the IQN for the vserver?

Creating an iSCSI LIF provides a network endpoint for iSCSI traffic but does not create the iSCSI service or generate an IQN for the vserver.

Creating a LUN is a storage provisioning step that is independent of the iSCSI service and does not trigger IQN generation on the vserver.

In ONTAP, the IQN for a vserver is automatically generated when the iSCSI protocol service is enabled via the 'vserver iscsi create' command. Until this service is explicitly started, the iSCSI service table remains empty and no IQN is assigned. Creating LIFs, LUNs, or applying licenses does not trigger IQN generation - only enabling the service itself does.

There is no 'make nodename' command in ONTAP - the IQN is automatically generated by the system when the iSCSI service is enabled, not through a manual generation command.

iSCSI licensing is a cluster-level prerequisite, but the license alone does not enable the iSCSI service or generate an IQN on any individual vserver.