Exchange 2013 Performance Monitor Data Collector Sets

Question

I've noticed that the Exchange 2013 install created two data collector sets within Performance Monitor:
ExchangeDiagnosticsDailyPerformanceLog
ExchangeDiagnosticsPerformanceLog
These sets are creating daily log files saved in C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\Logging\Diagnostics\DailyPerformanceLogs that are about 500MB in size, which are filling up our system volume.
I've tried stopping them, but they get restarted automatically. I also tried deleting them, but they get recreated automatically. Is there a way to disable these? We have a 3rd party tool that we use for performance monitoring and would like to avoid having
to delete these log files on a regular basis to keep our system volume from filling up.
As a workaround, I've changed the path where the log files get saved to a non existent drive letter, but would still like to disable the Data Collector Sets completely.
Thanks,
-Cory

Answer 1

Do note,
These performance counters only take up 1 week and not more so it will be about 3-5 GB if you can`t spare this on you c disk you have not implemented any best practise exchange design.
specialy with todays JBOD SATA design your c disk will be 1TB +. Review your designs to match MS advise.
MCTS-MCITP exchange 2010 | MCTS-MCITP Exchange: 2007 | MCSA Messaging: 2003 | MCP windows 2000
Hello Martin,
Many of us are implementing exchange in a virtual environment, where disk is at a premium.  Spending money on a 1 TB system drive is not a reasonable expectation.  Even if that is best practice, there should be a way to manage the location and
size of these log files. 
The inability to manage the location of log/performance data for centralization, or other reasons, is one more example of the disconnect between MS and their customer's use cases in regards to 2013. 
These are the requirements for 2013 from MS:
At least 30 GB on the drive on which you install Exchange
An additional 500 MB of available disk space for each Unified Messaging (UM) language pack that you plan to install
200 MB of available disk space on the system drive
A hard disk that stores the message queue database on with at least 500 MB of free space.
So your statement is invalid as 30 GB is not even close to deal with the amount of log and performance data that we cannot modify in any way.