The document provides new best practices for designing a SharePoint 2013 farm topology with a streamlined configuration. It recommends grouping service applications based on their CPU and RAM needs or latency and throughput, optimizing front-end servers for fast performance and batch processing servers to maximize system resources, and keeping the same guidance for database servers which can be scaled with storage groups.

1. New Best Practices for
SharePoint 2013 Farm
Design –
Streamlined Topology

3. Streamlined Topology
 To optimize system resources and maximize performance for users.
 Service applications are grouped either based on their CPU and RAM
needs or on their latency, throughput.

4. Optimizing each tier
Front End Servers Batch Processing Servers Database Servers
Optimized for fast
performance.
Optimized to maximize
system resources.
Guidance for database
servers remains the
same.
Service applications,
services, and
components that serve
user requests directly.
Service applications,
services, and
components that
process background
tasks.
Can be scaled with
storage groups.
Servers can tolerate
greater loads
Servers can be either
clustered, mirrored, or
configured with Always
On

5. Guidance for each server role

6. Services by roles recommendation

7. Database Server Storage Groups