Julie Brodeur

Julie is a senior technical writer in the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Performance Engineering group at Broadcom, where she supports the writing activities of a broad organization. She focuses on technical papers, knowledgebase articles, and blogs about the performance of the VMware by Broadcom suite of products and related virtualization topics.

Author's Posts

Database Performance

Improved out-of-the-box performance for Apache Cassandra with VMware vSphere 8 virtual topology enabled

VMware vSphere 8 virtual topology (aka vTopology or vTopo) dynamically assigns vCPUs to virtual sockets for a VM based on the system’s socket and core...

Julie Brodeur

April 18, 2024

Large Language Models

Large Language Model Inference Performance with NVIDIA AI Enterprise for VMware vSphere

Julie Brodeur

October 2, 2023

NVIDIA

VMware vSphere 8 Performance Is in the “Goldilocks Zone” for AI/ML Training and Inference Workloads

Julie Brodeur

July 21, 2023

Cloud

Leveraging the Full Power of Oracle Cloud VMware Solution and VMware vSphere

Julie Brodeur

June 27, 2023

DPU

New White Paper: Advantages of Using NVIDIA DPU with vSphere 8

Julie Brodeur

April 24, 2023

vSphere

Performance Best Practices for VMware vSphere 8.0

Julie Brodeur

January 6, 2023

Performance

Improving the Performance of High-Traffic Web Pages

Julie Brodeur

December 15, 2022

HPC

Performance Study of HPC Scale-Out Workloads on VMware vSphere 7

Julie Brodeur

April 1, 2022

Close-up of Technical Engineer Working on His Computer With Multiple Displays in Monitoring Room.

HPC

Achieving Near Bare-metal Performance for HPC Workloads on VMware vSphere 7

Julie Brodeur

January 26, 2022

Scaling performance comparison between passthrough, PVRDMA, and TCP (lower is better)

HPC

Paravirtual RDMA for High Performance Computing

Julie Brodeur

January 12, 2022

vSAN

Scaling Performance Analytics Data Infrastructure Beyond 100 Million Time-Series on VMware vSAN

Julie Brodeur

November 16, 2021

Figure 2 (as included in the paper). Added results with SMT disabled on the bare-metal cluster, where it scales out to 17 application instances, while the vSphere cluster scales out to 20.

VMware Tanzu

Enterprise Workload Performance on Kubernetes with CPU Limits

Julie Brodeur

November 5, 2021

Database Performance

PostgreSQL Performance Study on VMware vSphere 7 with Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory

Julie Brodeur

October 18, 2021