Questions for RP4VM

I have some questions about RP for VM, can somebody give me the answers ? Thank you.

1. In single site RP system configuration(CDP), can i replicate the VM within one vSphere cluster ? I.e. the Prod VM and CDP copy are in the same vSphere cluster.

2. RP for VM depends on vCenter, how to protect the vCenter VM itself?

3. Can Prod_VM/copy_VM/RP_Journal/RP_repository share the same vmfs datastore, if performance is not an issue ?

4. If i deploy the RPA VM's in a special vSphere cluster(different from the Prod cluster), which of the following datastores should be seen by the ESXi hosts in the RPA vSphere Cluster ?

  a. RP repository datastore.

  b. Journal datastore.

  c. The Prod VM datastores in the Prod vSphere cluster.

  d. All of above,

5. Can a RPA cluster shared with more than one vCenter ?

6. In a multiple site RP system configuration, which vCenter should i perform the failover/failover/test operation ? The Prod vCenter or the copy vCenter ?

7. Can i deploy the vRPA VM on the ESXi local datastore(Not shared with other ESXi) ? Of course the repository datastore.and journal datastore will be shared.