Converting Nexus 2000 FEX from Single Homed to Multihomed

Greetings!
I have a 2248TP FEX and two 5548UP Nexi. Yesterday, one of the 5548s experienced an issue that caused it to go offline. The FEX is single-homed to that 5548, and so everything connected to it went offline as well.
I want to multihome the FEX to both 5548s to avoid future outages to the FEX should one 5548 go offline. However, I am aware that both 5548s must have identical configuration for the FEX. Will multihoming it cause the FEX to stop operating because 5548 #2 will come up with no configuration for the FEX? I do not have the 5548s doing any configuration sharing, they are separately configured.
I am on NXOS version 6.0(2)N2(4).
Thank you!
Henry

Hi Henry,
Before you do anything, you need to configure your 5548 switches with VPC. You need to have one or 2 connections between the 5548s and configure them as VPC peer-link. You also need to configure the out of band management port on each switch as your VPC peer keep-alive.
Once all the VPC configs are complete, you can connect your FEXs to both 5ks and create a VPC for each one.
Please refer to this document for config example:
http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/switches/datacenter/sw/design/vpc_design/vpc_best_practices_design_guide.pdf
HTH

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