We have the same issue,
Server 2016; vmstatsprovider.dll is crashing as shown in WER logs and application log.
Other OS do not exhibit this issue.
We updated to tools 10.1.10 from 10.1.7 to no avail - still causing an issue.
We also tried a full uninstall of 10.1.7, restart and install of 10.1.10 on one Server.
Oddly both in event log and WER logs vmstatsprovider.dll looks to still be registered as 10.1.7 despite the file version being 10.1.10 on the machine - this is the same on all we have tried to update.
Sig[0].Name=Application Name
Sig[0].Value=WmiApSrv.exe
Sig[1].Name=Application Version
Sig[1].Value=10.0.14393.0
Sig[2].Name=Application Timestamp
Sig[2].Value=57899ac8
Sig[3].Name=Fault Module Name
Sig[3].Value=vmStatsProvider.dll
Sig[4].Name=Fault Module Version
Sig[4].Value=10.1.7.61298
Sig[5].Name=Fault Module Timestamp
Sig[5].Value=59163c3a
Sig[6].Name=Exception Code
Sig[6].Value=c0000005
Sig[7].Name=Exception Offset
Sig[7].Value=0000000000001d9a
DynamicSig[1].Name=OS Version
DynamicSig[1].Value=10.0.14393.2.0.0.272.7
Should I log with VMware and if so has anyone else done this and had a resolution?