SDM Template

Information About SDM Template

The switches support the Advanced template.

You can use the show sdm prefer privileged EXEC command which displays the SDM template in use.

Layer 3 NAT support moved to Network Essentials license

From IOS XE Release 26.2.1, Layer 3 Network Address Translation (NAT) is supported with the Network Essentials license instead of the Network Advantage license. A new L3 NAT SDM template is also available to allocate system resources for Layer 3 NAT.

Configuration Examples for SDM Templates

Example: Displaying SDM Template

The following example displays the output showing the SDM template information.

Device# show sdm prefer

Showing SDM Template Info

This is the Advanced template.
  Number of VLANs:                                     1024
  Unicast MAC addresses:                               24576
  Overflow Unicast MAC addresses:                      256
  L2 Multicast entries:                                1024
  L3 Multicast entries:                                1024
  Overflow L3 Multicast entries:                       256
  Directly connected routes:                           8192
  Indirect routes:                                     7168
  Security Access Control Entries:                     1536
  QoS Access Control Entries:                          1024
  Policy Based Routing ACEs:                           640
  Netflow Input ACEs:                                  128
  Netflow Output ACEs:                                 128
  Flow SPAN ACEs:                                      256
  Tunnels:                                             128
  LISP Instance Mapping Entries:                       256
  Control Plane Entries:                               512
  Input Netflow flows:                                 8192
  Output Netflow flows:                                8192
  SGT/DGT (or) MPLS VPN entries:                       2048
  SGT/DGT (or) MPLS VPN Overflow entries:              256
  Wired clients:                                       2048
  MACSec SPD Entries:                                  128

These numbers are typical for L2 and IPv4 features.
Some features such as IPv6, use up double the entry size;
so only half as many entries can be created.