Anandtech reports that Microsoft briefly showed off the new server manager.
Unsurprisingly, there's lots of Metro UI theming here, and server manager gets the top-bar bread crumb navigation and new organization. Subjectively this looks a lot like the new task manager we showed earlier.New Server Manager Shown Off for Windows Server 8
Microsoft used server manager in a simple demo to stick 16 SAS drives in JBOD, and then shared that JBOD using SMB 2.2 and generated a bunch of network traffic. No doubt we'll see a lot more of WIndows Server 8 today at BUILD.
