Legacy customers with active support contracts on perpetual licenses can continue using their existing keys through the end of their term, but no new keys are available for those discontinued editions.
If you are purely homelabbing and don't want licensing hassles, Proxmox Virtual Environment is a Debian-based hypervisor with built-in ZFS, Ceph, and a clustering interface similar to vSphere. It is free, open source, and supports live migration. vmware esxi 8 license key
The VMware User Group (VMUG) offers an for members. For roughly $210 USD/year, you get 365-day licenses for vSphere Enterprise Plus (including ESXi 8), vCenter, and VSAN. This is 100% legal for home labs and non-production training. Legacy customers with active support contracts on perpetual