1. A system, comprising: a memory; and a processor associated with an application server programmed to: configure a future deployment date for a virtual machine image; determine, prior to the configured future deployment date, a selected subset of available cache entries with valid durations of at least the configured future deployment date for the virtual machine image, where each of the available cache entries corresponds with a valid duration; prepare a cache image within the memory comprising only the determined selected subset of the available cache entries with the valid durations of at least the configured future deployment date for the virtual machine image; and deploy the virtual machine image to at least one other application server as a virtual machine with the cache image comprising only the determined selected subset of the available cache entries with the valid durations of at least the configured future deployment date for the virtual machine image.