A networked system may include an HCI component expansion/replacement system that is coupled to an HCI system and that periodically updates an HCI system solution database to identify a validated components for an HCI system platform that includes the HCI system, and validated software for each of the validated components. When the HCI component expansion/replacement system receives a request for a new component type to be provided in the HCI system, existing component information about a plurality of existing components that are included in the HCI system is retrieved and used to identify a first validated component that is identified in the HCI system solution database for the HCI system platform that includes the HCI system. The HCI component expansion/replacement system then provides the first validated software that is identified in the HCI system solution database for the first validated component to the HCI system.