Well, unless these are tiny instances, no change in _loading_ of a metaframe alone vs the DAW host loading everything, coupled, will be very unusual.
Just to be sure we're on the same page, you are instantiating everything separately before you load Logic, yes?
If you are proceeding correctly, I have to wonder with this report if you are using dynamic IP. If so, manually establish IP; ie., use fixed' IP, as dynamic/changing all the time makes networking VE Pro a real problem.