/mcpData sheet Cisco public © 2025 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Catalyst 9000 switches use flexible Software Database Manager (SDM) ASIC templates to enable universal deployments by leveraging the UADP’s ability to create resources to optimize table sizes for different places in the network. Based on how the switch is used in the network, an appropriate SDM ASIC template may be selected to configure the switch for specific features. Catalyst 9500X models Cisco Catalyst 9500X models support the following SDM ASIC templates • Default (core) • Custom Table 17 describes the default SDM ASIC template for the Catalyst 9500X models. Table 17. SDM template descriptions for Catalyst 9500X models Feature Default template MAC addresses 128,000 IP host routes1 128,000 IP longest prefix match (LPM) routes1,2 2 million IP multicast routes1 32,000 Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP)/Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) snooping1 16,000 MPLS labels3 256,000 Security/object groups 32,000 Security ACLs1 8,000 QoS ACLs1 8,000 Policy-based routing (PBR) 16,000 Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) tunnels 1,024 Sampled NetFlow entries1 2 million 1 IPv4 and IPv6 entries coexist in the same tables, but IPv6 entries require two entries. 2 LPM entries are stored as a hash, and efficiency is dependent on the actual routes learned. Catalyst 9500X hashing efficiency has been improved in Release 17.12.2. 3 Per-prefix MPLS labels are limited to 62,000 on Catalyst 9500X models. Flexible ASIC templates