VMware migration of a VM from a whitebox server to a new Dell server

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Hi all
I have been tasked to migrate a new client's virtual server. The present server is just a white box with a single 1TB sata hard drive. The new server is a new Dell T430 with 4x1TB drives.
Both are running the free version of ESX 5.5.
Besides doing a vmware convert or downloading it to a hard drive and then uploading it to the new server, does anyone have any ideas?
Is there some way of mounting the SATA drive in the new Dell server and having the other ESX server see that storage to do a copy?
I thought about Veeam but not sure if that will work without the storage APIs.
Thoughts/
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