Can multiple Central Policy Managers (CPMs) be load balanced?

The correct response indicating that multiple Central Policy Managers (CPMs) cannot be load balanced is based on the architectural design of CyberArk's solution. CPMs are designed to manage and execute the password management functionalities effectively; however, their operation is not built to support load balancing in the same way that other services might.

In CyberArk's architecture, each CPM runs as an independent instance, managing a unique set of tasks and responsibilities without sharing workload across multiple instances. While high availability can be achieved through other means, such as failover mechanisms, load balancing in the traditional sense—where requests are distributed evenly across multiple servers for optimal resource utilization—is not applicable to CPMs. Their functionalities are tightly coupled with the password management processes, which do not lend themselves to splitting tasks across multiple managers dynamically.

Understanding the limitations of CPMs in load balancing offers insight into proper design considerations when implementing CyberArk solutions, ensuring that redundancy and fault tolerance are planned appropriately without relying on methods that are not supported by the architecture.