How to compress large folder on ESXI 5.0?

Hi,

I have a 100GB folder. I tried to tar gzip it (tar cvzf folder.tar.gz folder) but I get the following error:

tar: cannot store file 'Record-Win7-Home-Premium-64Bit-80GB/Record-Win7-Home-Premium-64Bit-flat.vmdk' of size 86008397824, aborting

is there another utility I can use? (I want to compress the folder and copy it to another ESXI 5.0 Server).

Thanks!!

Dotan.