CoPilot Overview

Aviatrix CoPilot is the primary management interface for the Aviatrix platform, extending visibility into complex, multicloud networks managed by Aviatrix Controller. Aviatrix CoPilot provides an operational view of your multicloud network. CoPilot helps enterprises implement cloud networking that embeds security into their networks, with monitoring and diagnostic tools that support application availability. CoPilot offers visibility into cloud networking costs, showing how network resources are consumed by different business units or cost centers for billing purposes. Enterprise IT teams use CoPilot’s dynamic topology mapping to maintain an accurate topology of their multicloud networks, and FlowIQ to analyze network traffic flows through heat maps and time series trend charts that pinpoint and troubleshoot traffic anomalies. CoPilot uses network and security services delivered by Aviatrix’s multicloud network platform to provide enterprise cloud network operations teams with familiar day-2 operational capabilities, such as packet capture, trace route, and ping, built for multicloud network environments.

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CoPilot Deployment Model

CoPilot is deployed as an all-in-one virtual appliance and is available on AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI marketplaces. For information about base image releases that become available in the marketplaces, see the Aviatrix CoPilot Image Release Notes . CoPilot works in tandem with Aviatrix Controller; to use CoPilot, you must have an operational Aviatrix Controller. In the Controller, you set up user accounts and the CoPilot service account with required permissions for CoPilot usage. See CoPilot Accounts and Users. Aviatrix Controller and CoPilot are not required to be collocated. It is possible to run them in separate VPC/VNets or separate cloud providers (in multicloud environments). If CoPilot is located in the same VPC/VNet as your Controller, specifying a private IP can increase operational bandwidth and potentially save on cost. To deploy Controller and CoPilot, you must subscribe to an Aviatrix offer in a cloud provider marketplace. See the discussion about planning your CoPilot deployment in Planning Your CoPilot Deployment for information about Aviatrix offers. For information about deploying Aviatrix CoPilot, including deployment methods and virtual machine (instance) minimum requirements, see CoPilot Planning Deployment .

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New and Existing Deployments

For a new Aviatrix deployment, the Launch Aviatrix guided experience deploys Controller and CoPilot together and directs you to the CoPilot login page when deployment completes. If you are upgrading an existing Controller that does not yet have CoPilot deployed, the upgrade process requires you to deploy CoPilot before the upgrade can proceed. If you already have CoPilot deployed, your existing CoPilot instance continues to operate and connects to the upgraded Controller. If your associated CoPilot instance does not meet the minimum supported size, Aviatrix Controller displays the following warning: CoPilot Requirements describes the minimum supported instance size for CoPilot.

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CoPilot Licensing and Trials

If you are interested in a trial of CoPilot, contact Aviatrix through the online form, or contact your Aviatrix Sales representative.

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CoPilot Product Guides

CoPilot product guides are as follows: For a summary of CoPilot key features, see CoPilot Features .