I'm running some tests and I want to see if this is even possible. I have two seperate hosts, one is at our Corp office and the other is at a branch office connected via a T1 link. I have powered down a particular VM and I would like to move it from one host to another (storage vmotion). There is no shared storage, it's all local storage. The VM is 25GB. Yes, I know it will take forever to move 25GB from one location to another, but I want to try anyway. My first attempt timed out. Is there a value I can change for the timeout period? I thought that a timeout would only occur on a powered on VM that has a certain amount of memory changes while in transit.
Could try FastSCP from veeam. http://www.veeam.com/vmware-esxi-fastscp.html
I'd also go FastSCP - use it daily )pretty much) a nd almost always my tool for moving data between hosts where no easy option is available.
The veeam product worked quite well for just the copy function. The time it takes to actually move a file is the painful part, but there's not much you can do outside of buying a WAN optimizer to move the data over a T1.
To be honest, using FedEx to overnight a 32 gig thumb drive with the VM on it would probably be the fastest method.