Patent ID: 8424001

Claim:
A method, comprising: preparing, via an application server for a virtual machine image, a cache image comprising only cache entries with valid durations of at least a configured deployment date for the virtual machine image, where each of the cache entries corresponds with a valid duration; determining that the configured deployment date for the virtual machine image has changed; determining the valid duration associated with each cache entry within the cache image; deleting any of the cached entries determined not to have a valid duration of at least the changed configured deployment date for the virtual machine image; and deploying the virtual machine image to at least one other application server as a virtual machine with the cache image comprising only the cache entries with the valid durations of at least the configured deployment date for the virtual machine image, where deploying the virtual machine image to at least one other application server as a virtual machine with the cache image comprising only the cache entries with the valid durations of at least the configured deployment date for the virtual machine image comprises deploying the virtual machine image to the at least one other application server as the virtual machine with the cache image comprising only the cache entries with the valid durations of at least the changed configured deployment date for the virtual machine image.