Step 1: get jstatd running.
If jstatd is not running, create a file called jstatd.all.policy with the following contents:
grant codebase "file:${java.home}/../lib/tools.jar" { permission java.security.AllPermission;};
Start jstatd as follows:
nohup jstatd -J-Djava.security.policy=/path/to/your/jstatd.all.policy &
Step 2: Start Remote jvisualvm
/usr/java/jdk1.7.0_25/bin/jvisualvm