Dell Products Inc.

Yayun Liu

Deepaganesh Paulraj

Isaac Qin Wang

Wade Andrew Butcher

An information handling system may include at least one processor; and an information handling resource, wherein the information handling resource has hardware definition information associated therewith, and wherein the hardware definition information is not stored in a physical storage resource of the information handling resource; wherein the information handling system is configured to: determine a storage location of a database including the hardware definition information of the information handling resource; and retrieve the hardware definition information from the database.

Software-defined FRU

Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for an automated platform design tool are provided herein. An example method includes extracting information from a first file corresponding to a first computing design, the information including an identifier of at least one network, components associated with the identifier, and connections for each of the components; comparing the first computing design to a second computing design, wherein the comparing comprises: detecting that a second schematic file corresponding to the second computing design comprises the identifier, and determining, for at least one given component, whether the second schematic file includes a matching component based on the set of connections for the at least one given component; determining differences between the first computing design and the second computing design based on the results of the comparing; and initiating at least one automated action based at least in part on the one or more differences.

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