You can read about it's use here. Used in VMware vRealize for monitoring virtualization across an enterprise.

https://docs.vmware.com/en/vRealize-Operations/8.4/com.vmware.vcom.core.doc/GUID-3F9EED74-6794-4852-...

I deleted the scoreboard files, made the addition to .vmx as proposed by @DaveP and re-ran the vm. No more scoreboard files.