I have never performed an initial setup. I came in as director and built on what was already existing. 

It’s relatively complex to set up. It is a Kubernetes cluster. The installation could be easy, however, if you're not prepared well, you might have issues. On the other hand, if you have everything set up, it could also go very smoothly.

About three people, including myself, one consultant, and one person at Cisco, handled the deployment.

The deployment is pretty easy if everything is set up. For us, it would take about two hours to be set up, and configured, and get it running.

The initial setup was complex. The architecture is not in a single appliance or container similar to how VMware has different appliances. None of the companies I use have full-blown architecture in a single appliance. 

Multi-node deployment takes one or two days provided there are no complications with node clusters, load balancers, certificates, and rule sets. Things take time because of third-party dependencies. 

Standalone, single-node deployments are straightforward and take three or four hours to complete.

The initial setup was a little more complex than it is now with the CloudCenter Suite. It's is not so relevant to 4.7 now that 5 is out. Typically it's calling an old VA inside of VMware in our example. Once that's up, it's called the CloudCenter Screen Installer and you typically just give it credentials towards your vCenter or VMware environment and it will spin up the manager and worker images for the community's cluster and it will actually install everything for you.

So you just need to be patient, get a coffee and wait for it. Once it's up, you have to do additional configurations for your email, your SSL certificates. It can't automatically decide that for you. But otherwise, it's pretty much spun up by itself, so it's very easy. 

Upgrades are very simple as well because they've allowed us to get updates directly in the CloudCenter Suite manager. If you need to do an upgrade to your setup afterward, you just push a button and it rolls out the parts and retires the old ones. It's seamless and very simple compared to what we've done before.

The initial setup process is straightforward.

For us, we did a basic setup and the initial setup was straightforward. It depends on the company, however. It can get complex depending on the requirements.

We have a team of five people that handle maintenance on the solution. 

The solution's initial setup is easy. 

I don't participate directly in the implementation as I am more dedicated to the sales side of the business. However, it's my understanding that the initial setup is very easy and very straightforward. It's not complex. Our engineers, of course, have a lot of experience in the process.

The base implementation and the configuration can take about three or four months. After that, however, we spend about six months in the migration of services. The migration times vary and depend on the customer and what needs to be migrated over.

In general, an entire project may take about ten months or so.

The tool's setup was complex.