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Day 5 — Operate & Govern & Forward-Migrate (Commercial CoE)

Track: 5-Day Commercial CoE Workshop · Day 5 of 5 · Operate & Govern & Forward-Migrate

Day 5 operationalizes the deployment, runs a DR drill, and — the major differentiator vs the Federal track — forward-migrates live to Fabric Commercial (which is GA). It ends with the CoE charter and exec readout.

Azure-native by default + live Fabric migration

Monitoring/cost run on Azure Monitor + Cost Management. Because Fabric Commercial is GA, forward migration is demonstrated live here, not planning-only. Loom itself still requires no Fabric to operate.

Learning objectives

  1. Operate Loom day-2: monitoring, alerting, multi-DLZ cost rollup.
  2. Run a DR drill (simulated region failover); document RTO/RPO.
  3. Forward-migrate a workload live to Fabric Commercial.
  4. Finalize the CoE charter.
  5. Deliver the exec readout.

Facilitator guide

Timing (8-hour day)

Time Activity Mode
09:00 Day-4 recap + day-2 ops overview Lecture
09:30 Monitoring Hub + diagnostics Lab
10:15 Cost management — rollup + budgets Lab
10:45 Break —
11:00 DR drill — simulated region failover Lab
12:00 Lunch —
13:00 Live forward migration to Fabric Commercial Lab
14:30 CoE charter finalization Workshop
15:00 Break —
15:15 Exec readout dry-run Workshop
16:00 Exec readout to sponsor Plenary

Talking points

  • Live forward migration (unique to Commercial): unlike the Federal track (Fabric Forecasted → planning-only), commercial customers can run fiab-migrate execute against a real Fabric Commercial workspace today: create OneLake shortcuts to the existing Delta tables (zero data movement), port dbt + KQL unchanged, and re-author the semantic model for Direct Lake on OneLake. The customer leaves Day 5 with a working Fabric workspace alongside Loom.
  • Side-by-side: run the same query in Loom (Azure-native) and Fabric Commercial and compare results — proves the 1:1 parity claim concretely.
  • DR: document RTO/RPO; ADLS Delta + ADX redundancy are customer-owned.

Exercises

  1. Group executes the OneLake shortcut creation and verifies zero data movement.
  2. Pairs run the Loom-vs-Fabric side-by-side query and reconcile row counts.

Common pitfalls

  • No Fabric Commercial capacity provisioned for the live migration → provision an F-SKU trial/capacity before Day 5, or fall back to the planning walkthrough.
  • Assuming the migration moves data — it creates shortcuts; data stays in ADLS.

Participant lab — operate + migrate live

  1. Monitoring. In Monitor (/monitor), confirm diagnostics, open the KQL chart library, pin a health tile; resolve remaining gates.
  2. Cost. Set a DLZ budget; confirm the cross-DLZ trend renders.
  3. DR drill. Walk the region-failover runbook; record RTO/RPO.
  4. Forward migration (live). Run fiab-migrate execute against the Fabric Commercial workspace: create OneLake shortcuts to gold.*, port dbt + KQL, re-author the semantic model for Direct Lake on OneLake. Verify the Fabric workspace shows the tables.
  5. Side-by-side. Run the top-10 device query in Loom and in Fabric Commercial; reconcile.
  6. CoE charter. Fill the CoE charter template and export.
  7. Readout. Present outcomes to the exec sponsor.

Validation (workshop done): monitoring + cost operational, DR documented, a workload live in Fabric Commercial via shortcuts with a reconciled side-by-side query, CoE charter complete, exec readout delivered.

Datasets

No new data — operates on Days 2-4 output.

Post-workshop

Commercial-specific emphasis

  • Live Fabric Commercial migration is the headline differentiator.
  • Direct Lake on OneLake becomes available post-migration (native Fabric).
  • Vertical sign-off: map the deployment to HIPAA/SOC 2/PCI/GDPR/FDA Part 11 controls in the charter.

Slide deck

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