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VM's not available in inventory of 2nd ESX

We have 2 ESX machines running VMware 4.0 and 6 VM's.  There are supposed to be 3 VM's on each ESX but all six are showing up in the inventory of ESX1 and none are available in ESX2.  This is the case regardless of the VM's being powered on or off.  How can I get 3 moved to the inventory of ESX2?
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If you have appropriately licensing, you can 'live migrate' (Vmotion) them to the other host. If not, power them down, rt-click, select 'migrate' to cold migrate them to the other host.

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Don't seem to have the option to migrate when right clicking.  Any other way to do it?  Don't have Vmotion.
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I have the option to remove from inventory.  Will that delete the VM?  If not, can I add it to the inventory of ESX2 once it is removed from the inventory of ESX1?
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Must be using standalone ESXi hosts. Well...there are a few ways to do this - pwr down the VMs you wanna move, download/install Veeam FastSCP & copy/paste the VM folders to the 2nd host; or you can download Converter Standalone to 'move' them. Both tools are free.
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The datastores were identical on both hosts - strange.  I logged into vSphere and used the datastore browser and added the .vmx file to the inventory.  Starting up now -- fingers crossed.