can you republish perf counters?

I am trying to monitor some VMware server data via WMI, so that I can
watch resource utilization on the host machine, on a per-VM basis (ie,
how much host memory, cpu, network, etc., is a specific virtual machine
using). VMware already provides some basic performance counter entries
for things like disk and memory utilization, but I need to get some
more info from some other objects. For example, CPU utilization is not
available, and I have to get that info from the system's Process
performance counters, but I have to do some scripting to find the right
process associated with a specific virtual machine (have to query the
server for the PID, then grep all instances of "vmware-vmx" process for
the PID that matches).

In order to simplify this I am thinking I can just make a little daemon
that gathers this info together and republishes it under a private
performance counter set. That will save me from having to rebuild the
logic on all the different front-end monitoring tools.

I've never done any of this kind of windows programming so first
question, is this possible. Second question, is this easy?

Thanks

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