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dhcp/DNS config in Vmware or in virutal machine?

My client has their DNS configured to the local virtual machine.  I was curious if DNS is configured on the Virtual machine or in the vsphere client?  If the server crashes nothing works, was wanting to add a secondary dns address just something generic like googles 8.8.8.8, just didn't know if I needed to configure that in vsphere, or on the virtual machine Windows server?
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I was curious if DNS is configured on the Virtual machine or in the vsphere client?

depends what you are configuring it for
if it is for guests, you configure inside each guest; if it's for the ESX host, you configure in the vSphere or web client

If the server crashes nothing works...

is this a one and only domain controller?

was wanting to add a secondary dns address just something generic like googles 8.8.8.8

windows clients will use either primary or secondary so the risk to using a public address like that is it could interrupt normal network connectivity if tries to do an internal host query on an external server.  i would build another domain controller for redundancy
They need to have at least TWO DNS servers!

pointing to google DNS is not going to help you!
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Yes they only have one physical server.  There are two virtual servers configured on it.  If there is an issue with the server I can't remote in to fix anything if DNS goes down.  The client is hour and a half drive away.  So just looking at options.  They might go for a second server, but that will take some time.  Looking a short term fixes.  I think we are going to upgrade the whole thing sometime soon, I'm just trying to keep kind of an older system alive.  And also just trying to keep the internet up also, when server goes down.
In this case, quite simple Excel Spreadsheet and record IP Addresses!

or TWO DNS servers!
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I'll try to find a secondary DNS source.  Thanks Steve McCarthy.  That was what I was trying to figure out.  Just didn't know if the DNS info in the DHCP was configured on the Windows Server/domain control/Virtual Machine or if it was configured in the vmSphere client.  I am kind of new to the Vmware stuff so I might not always use the exact correct lingo.