Replication Job Error: Error: VDDK error: 1 (Unknown error). Value: 0x0000000000000001 Failed to download disk 'VDDK:vddk://[Datastore-Replication]

could you please describe what was configured, set and if this first or after time?

from that point is hard to answer

Here are few things to check:

• Check if any disk consolidation is pending on the VM. You can manually create and delete a snapshot to force consolidation.

• Confirm that the VBR server and proxies can communicate with each other and with vSphere (vCenter and ESXi - 902/TCP), and that the necessary ports are open https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/used_ports.html?ver=120

• If you’re using HotAdd transport mode, check the proxy VM for orphaned disks, and try switching the job to use NBD mode.

If the issue still persists, checking the logs “C:\ProgramData\Veeam\Backup\JobName” might provide more insight. 

Hi ​@edmund mhagama -

Welcome to the Community! As Marcel has shared...it would be best to get more information on your setup → what version of VBR are you using? Are you replicating from a VBR server on the “source” side or are you using a 2nd VBR server on a DR side to replicate DC1/source VMs? Do other types of Jobs fail? (Backup, Copy, etc).

At the very least, you can look at your log directory and see if there are more details in there as ​@Mohamed Ali shared: C:\ProgramData\Veeam\Backup\<JobName>.log

Best.

I would say its a disk still attached to the proxy if you using HotAdd.

If the job isn’t running you can check each proxy. Look at the disks on each proxy and you will find that there will be at least one disk for the affected VM on there. Edit the Proxy and remove the attached disk. DO NOT check the remove from datastore option.

The removal may fail if the proxy is processing other jobs at the same, so you would just retry the steps when its not busy.

I would definitely check what Mark mentioned as I have seen this many times with replication.  Also check the other great answers here and hopefully it will lead you in a direction to get an answer.  Worse case open a support ticket.

Does the destination datastore have enough space to create a new restore point? Check if the VM has stuck or orphaned snapshots that could interfere with replication.

Strongly recommend open a Support case and let Veeam Support take a look.

Error: VDDK error: 1 (Unknown error). Value: 0x0000000000000001 Failed to download disk 'VDDK:vddk://[Datastore-Replication] GTBHELP01_replica02/GTBHELP01.vmdk'. Shared memory connection was closed. Failed to upload disk 'vddkConnSpec>' Agent failed to process method {DataTransfer.SyncDisk}.

Unknown Error from VDDK means just that, there was some exception never accounted for and it’s going to need log investigation, as issue could be proxy, transport mode, connection stability issues, Vmware issues, etc. 

That it mentions Shared Memory Connection here means that source and target datamover are on the same server (i.e., proxy and repo/gateway are likely the same server) so the source and target agent transfer data between each other using shared memory.

This stands out to me as usually if a shared memory connection error surfaces, it means we need to do a deeper analysis on the logs to figure out which agent actually threw the error. 

I have a deep suspicion this is about resources on the proxy but cannot prove it with just the above -- if you can spin up a quick linux proxy (just use vanilla Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, should work out of the box after OS installation), set a dedicated source and target proxy for the Data Transfer page of the Replica Job wizard, it may help.

But a support case is best; I wrote the above mostly to explain that there isn’t an easy answer for VDDK 1, it’s so unknown what the issue is they named it Unknown, so really will need log analysis or hope you get lucky with trial and error.