service actions slow in Ambari on sandbox

I have installed the sandbox vm on vmware. The vm itself is performing well, but when I try to start the services (for example Kafka or Storm) from ambari, it takes hours for them to start. Based on the stats below CPU is not fully utilized. Is that expect to be that slow or is there a way to track the start up process?

[root@sandbox Tutorials-master]# vmstat
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- -----cpu-----
 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in   cs us sy id wa st
 4  0 962952 242352  24004 184656    3    6    10    20   16  108 27  2 70  0  0
[root@sandbox Tutorials-master]#