Great blog post by Roger Eriksson
Can you use SVC with XIV as storage?
XIV and SVC can be a great combination, we have many customers using this combo.
Why? flexibility and support for operating systems the XIV does not support.
But don’t you have to pay twice for licenses if you want to do mirror data? NO, its a special XIV license for the SVC which includes all the features that comes with the XIV, but for the SVC instead, neat isn’t it?
Read the entire article here:
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/storage_redbooks/entry/can_you_use_svc_with_xiv_as_storage