VMware ESX Starter and Foundation editions do not provide a built in function to migrate a virtual machine to another ESX host. In the absence of these options, you can do this by logging on to the console operating system using Putty, and then using the SCP utility to copy the VM files. Then on the destination server, add the server to the inventory and mount the VM.
The software you need to do this is already installed on the source and destination server, but has to be enabled in the virtual infrastructure client first on both servers:
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