That is a part of the VMware Workstation Server Service and if you're not using any Shared Virtual Machines then turn off and disable the VMware Workstation Server Service in Windows Services.
If you do use VMware Workstation Server Service then there is a hostAgentStats.xml file in that same folder, the contents of which is show below, you could try setting <numSamples> to 0 or something smaller then 180 and also increase the <samplingPeriod> if you want.
<ConfigRoot> <intervals> <interval id="0000"> <name>RealTime</name> <numSamples>180</numSamples> <samplingPeriod>20</samplingPeriod> <storeName>C:\ProgramData\VMware\hostd/stats/hostAgentStats-20.stats</storeName> </interval> </intervals></ConfigRoot>