Can VMware ESXi free be officially used for commercial purposes?

Question

VMware

Greetings!
Who faced the use of esxi free in production in a commercial organization? On the forums ( one , two ) they write that it is possible and limited to only 8 vCPU

Is there an official confirmation of this from VMware? Or will you have to be guided by what is not forbidden, then it is allowed? :)

Answer 1

ESXi (which is VMware vSphere Hypervisor) is only free. And its use is absolutely free, regardless of the legal form of the enterprise (unless you mean resale by commercial use :)).
Is the EULA not an “official confirmation from VMware”? You really want it, don't you? :) Then call them [phone]
And the following piece from Licensing, Pricing and Packaging White Paper gives an exhaustive (in my opinion) answer to your question (I marked in italics):
VMware vSphere Hypervisor is a free product that provides a
simple and easy way to get started with virtualization at no
cost. vSphere Hypervisor provides only basic virtualization
capabilities, allowing customers to virtualize servers and run
applications in virtual machines in a matter of minutes. vSphere
Hypervisor cannot connect to vCenter Server and therefore
cannot be centrally managed. Users can remotely manage
individual vSphere Hypervisor hosts using the vSphere Client.
There are no restrictions on the number of cores per physical
CPU, on the number of physical CPUs per host and on the
amount of RAM per server/ host. The maximum vCPUs per
virtual machine is eight.