?Perfmon and WMI: how they are linked together?

Hello,
I would appreciate if some one can enlighten me on this one.
VMware provides perfmon counters for their GSX server by means of
vmPerfmon.dll. They claim that they don't provide WMI support.
However if you connect to the box (and the server runs on any Windows
server platform) you will see Win32_PerfRawData_VMware_VMware and
Win32_PerfFormattedData_VMware_VMware classes along with Perfmon
showing the same counters.
Question: if VMware doesn't provide WMI support how these classes
appear on the list? How WinOS *pretends* to see WMI provider?
I am looking for general steps (or sequence) that links perfmon
counters in a performance DLL to WMI class creation.
Thanks in advance, Alex.

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