The earliest recollection of this bug is traced back to PAN-OS 10.2.2 - July 22, 2025. This bug is fixed in PAN-OS versions 11.0.5, 10.2.8. The VM-Series firewall on Azure does not boot up with a hostname (specified in an init-cgf.txt or user data) when bootstrapped. ( VM-Series firewalls only ) Fixed an issue where hostname validation failed due to the firewall not taking the hostname provided in init.cfg . For more information: https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/pan-os/10-2/pan-os-release-notes/pan-os-10-2-2-known-and-addressed-issues/pan-os-10-2-2-known-issues https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/pan-os/10-2/pan-os-release-notes/pan-os-10-2-3-known-and-addressed-issues/pan-os-10-2-3-known-issues https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/pan-os/10-2/pan-os-release-notes/pan-os-10-2-4-known-and-addressed-issues/pan-os-10-2-4-known-issues https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/pan-os/10-2/pan-os-release-notes/pan-os-10-2-5-known-and-addressed-issues/pan-os-10-2-5-known-issues https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/pan-os/10-2/pan-os-release-notes/pan-os-10-2-6-known-and-addressed-issues/pan-os-10-2-6-known-issues https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/pan-os/10-2/pan-os-release-notes/pan-os-10-2-7-known-and-addressed-issues/pan-os-10-2-7-known-issues https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/pan-os/10-2/pan-os-release-notes/pan-os-10-2-8-known-and-addressed-issues/pan-os-10-2-8-addressed-issues https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/pan-os/11-0/pan-os-release-notes/pan-os-11-0-0-known-and-addressed-issues/pan-os-11-0-0-known-issues https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/pan-os/11-0/pan-os-release-notes/pan-os-11-0-1-known-and-addressed-issues/pan-os-11-0-1-known-issues https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/pan-os/11-0/pan-os-release-notes/pan-os-11-0-2-known-and-addressed-issues/pan-os-11-0-2-known-issues https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/pan-os/11-0/pan-os-release-notes/pan-os-11-0-3-known-and-addressed-issues/pan-os-11-0-3-known-issues https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/pan-os/11-0/pan-os-release-notes/pan-os-11-0-4-known-and-addressed-issues/pan-os-11-0-4-known-issues https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/pan-os/11-0/pan-os-release-notes/pan-os-11-0-5-known-and-addressed-issues/pan-os-11-0-5-addressed-issues